Popular historiographies in the 19th and 20th centuries : cultural meanings, social practices / edited by Sylvia Paletschek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paletschek, Sylvia.

Series:

New German historical perspectives ; v. 4.

New German historical perspectives ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--Historiography.

Germany.

Historiography.

Historiography--Germany--History.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction : why analyse popular historiographies? / Sylvia Paletschek

Questioning the canon : popular historiography by women in Britain and Germany, 1750-1850 / Angelika Epple

Popular presentations of history in the nineteenth century : the example of "die Gartenlaube" / Sylvia Paletschek

Understanding the world around 1900 : popular world histories in Germany / Hartmut Bergenthum

History for readers : popular historiography in twentieth-century Germany / Wolfgang Hardtwig

Between political coercion and popular expectations : contemporary history on the radio in the German Democratic Republic / Christoph Classen

Moving history : film and the Nazi past in Germany since the late 1970s / Frank Bösch

Memory history and the standardization of history / Dieter Langewiesche

The Second World War in the popular culture of memory in Norway / Claudia Lenz

Sissi : popular representations of an empress / Sylvia Schraut

Scientists as heroes? Einstein, Curie and the popular historiography of science / Beate Ceranski

Das Wunder von Bern : the 1954 football world cup, the German nation and popular histories / Franz-Josef Brüggemeier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845457402

1845457404

OCLC:

555673127