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Illustrations; About the Series Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz First Things First Two Peoples, One Mission: Biculturalism and Visitor "Experience" at Te Papa-Our Place, New Zealand's New National Museum/Charlotte J. MacDonald; Contesting Time, Place, and Nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization/Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips; "Unfinished Business": Public History in a Postcolonial Nation/Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton Colonial Legacies and Winners' Tales Exhibiting Asia in Britain: Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization/Durba Ghosh; The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion/Richard R. Flores; Ellis Island Redux: The Imperial Turn and the Race of Ethnicity/Daniel J. Walkowitz State Stories A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa/Albert Grundlingh; Narratives of Power, the Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation/O. Hugo Benavides; Affective Distinctions: Race and Place in Oaxaca/Deborah Poole Under-Stated Stories Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Monuments in Kathmandu/Anne M. Rademacher; Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba": Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism and the Progressive State in Brazil/Paul Amar; Afrocuban Religion, Museums, and the Cuban Nation/Lisa Maya Knauer; Haunting Delgres/Laurent Dubois Bibliography; Contributors; Index

"By offering studies from six continents, this volume makes the important point that globalization on the one hand and new sorts of localism on the other have powerfully affected discussions of how an often dark and morally compromised past can be critically assimilated into the nearly universal state of fractured national consciousness."--Thomas W. Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley "This is an exceptionally strong and interesting collection about public history in the context of evolving sensibilities about nation, race, culture, 'identity,' and public representation itself. It features great essays instructively organized, as well as a thoughtful, focused introduction that sets them all in a broader context."--Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, SUNY