History, Policy and Public Purpose

Historians and Historical Thinking in Government

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:146
Upplaga:2016
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137520852

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Alix Green is Lecturer in Public History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She read history at the University of Cambridge and spent ten years in policy research and government relations before bringing her experience into academic research on the uses of history. She is particularly interested in historical thinking and the international and conceptual aspects of public history.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. - 1. Integrity, advocacy and the public purpose of scholarship. - 2. Historians on the inside: thinking with history in policy. - 3. The historian’s toolkit. - 4. Disciplinary training and public purpose in university history teaching. - Conclusions: Towards a history with public purpose