Abstract
Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik, eds. What Is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.Kylie Message. The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge. Museums in Focus series. London: Routledge, 2018.Susan L. T. Ashley. A Museum in Public: Revisioning Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum. Museums in Focus series. London: Routledge, 2020.Adrian Franklin. Anti-Museum. Museums in Focus series. London: Routledge, 2020.Kylie Message. Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street. Museums in Focus series. London: Routledge, 2019.
Highlights
What Is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present
The 2017 vandalism of two statues in Sydney’s Hyde Park, which venerate key figures responsible for bringing the British colonial enterprise to Australia, is discussed in the opening chapter of What Is Public History Globally? As I write this, the statue of Captain James Cook in Hyde Park is back in the news headlines, as it is at the center of a protest against the numbers of Aboriginal deaths in police custody in Australia (Swain 2020)
The omission of scholarship from Eastern Europe, South America, and East Asia beyond China is significant in a publication that claims to be global, and when nine of the 24 chapters are contributed by Australian authors
Summary
What Is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present. Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik, eds. The five books in this review are from the fields of public history and museum studies.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
