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The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminate...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in popular cultures ;
volume 6 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (306 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839420072 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | P96 |
| CLC: | K0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Popular History Now and Then / Professional and Popular Historians / The Bull of Nineveh / Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press / Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany / The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits / Wars and Little Heroes / Popular History, Gender and Nationalism / Creating Popular Music History / Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful / Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture / Shifting Imageries / Seeing the Past 1800 1900 2000 / Afterword: Past, Present, Future / List of Contributors -- Index. |