List of Illustrations

Introduction: Approaching Historical Reenactments
Mario Carretero, Brady Wagoner, and Everardo Perez-Manjarrez

Part I: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Chapter 1. On Motives for Reenactment: The Kindertransport
William Niven

Chapter 2. Conceptualizing the Period Rush: Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment
Robbert-Jan Addriaansen

Part II: Reenactments as Tools of Cultural and National Identities

Chapter 3. Historical Reenactments in Spain: A Critical Approach to Public Perceptions of the Iron Age and Roman Past
David González- Álvarez, Pablo Alonso-González, and Jesús Rodríguez-Hernández

Chapter 4. Reenacting the Reconquista Myth? Some Reflections on Moros y Cristianos Festivals in Spain
Ignacio Bresco and Floor van Alphen

Part III: Politics of Reenactment: Troubled Pasts, Colonialism, and Democratic Prospects

Chapter 5. Statue Wars and Reenactments: Reinterpreting the Colonial Past in Australia
Stephen Gapp

Chapter 6. From Yogyakarta to Independence: Negotiating Narratives in the Historical Reenactment of Re-colonization in Indonesia
Lise Zurne

Chapter 7. Memory Sites and Reenacting State Terrorism: The Museum at Argentina's Naval Mechanics School
Marisa González de Oleaga

Part IV: Reenactments as Educational Devices in Formal and Informal Contexts

Chapter 8. Reenacting the Past in the School Yard: Its Role in History and Civic Education
Mario Carretero, Everard Perez-Manjarrez, and Maria Rodriguez-Moneo

Chapter 9. Inside Historical Reenactment
Tyson Retz

Epilogue: What Is the Task of Reenactment?
Vanessa Agnew

Index

Everardo Perez-Manjarrez is a research professor at the National Distance Education University (Spain), and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, (USA). His recent publications include "Learning History" (The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, 2022) (co-authored) and "Pragmatic, Complacent, Critical-Cynical or Empathetic?": Youth Civic Engagement as Social Appraisal (Teachers College Record, 2021).