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Popular History Now and Then International Perspectives Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen ; Bd. 6.
- Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular History.
- Historical Culture.
- Popular Culture.
- Memory Culture.
- Media.
- Cultural Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Local Subjects:
- Popular History.
- Historical Culture.
- Popular Culture.
- Memory Culture.
- Media.
- Cultural Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Korte/Paletschek (eds.), Popular History International Perspectives
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Barbara Korte is professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
- Sylvia Paletschek is Professor of Modern History at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
- 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.
- Reviewed in:Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 62/1 (2014), Ludger Heid
- »Wie verschieden Formate und Formen populärer historischer Wissensvermittlung nach Gehalt und Gepräge im Zeitverlauf sein können, das zeigen die Artikel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes ebenso nachdrücklich auf wie deren potentielle Rolle als Instanzen gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Demokratisierungs- und Pluralisierungsprozesse.«
- Contents:
- 1 Editorial 2 Contents 5 Popular History Now and Then 7 Professional and Popular Historians 13 The Bull of Nineveh 31 Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press 55 Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany 73 The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits 105 Wars and ›Little‹ Heroes 123 Popular History, Gender and Nationalism 149 Creating Popular Music History 169 »Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful« 185 Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture 203 Shifting Imageries 231 Seeing the Past 1800 - 1900 - 2000 263 Afterword: Past, Present, Future 281 List of Contributors 297 Index 301
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783839420072
- 3839420075
- OCLC:
- 906184069
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