Popular History Now and Then: International Perspectives

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Popular History Now and Then

International Perspectives

Edited by: Barbara Korte and Sylvia Paletschek

Volume 6 in the series Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839420072

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

»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.«
Dietmar Hüser, sehepunkte, 12/6 (2012)

Reviewed in:

Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 62/1 (2014), Ludger Heid

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Popular History Now and Then An Introduction Barbara Korte and Sylvia Paletschek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Professional and Popular Historians 1800 – 1900 – 2000 Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Bull of Nineveh Antiquity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Billie Melman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press Leslie Howsam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany Exploratory Notes on a Comparative Approach Barbara Korte and Sylvia Paletschek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits Contested Interests in »Tÿrol« Philipp Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Wars and ›Little‹ Heroes Historical Topics in Popular Poetry Anthologies from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Stefanie Lethbridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Popular History, Gender and Nationalism Female Narratives of a National Myth Birte Förster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Creating Popular Music History The Barbershop Harmony Revival in the United States around 1940 Frédéric Döhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
»Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful« History and Art History in Popular Italian Magazines of the 1960s Antonie R. Wiedemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture The Twentieth-Century Metamorphosis of a Popular Hero Fernando Sánchez-Marcos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Shifting Imageries Memory, Projectivity and the Experience of Violence in Northern Côte d’Ivoire Till Förster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Seeing the Past 1800 – 1900 – 2000 History as a Photo Album Susan A. Crane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Afterword: Past, Present, Future Jerome De Groot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 306
Keywords: Historical Culture; Popular Culture; Memory Culture; Media; Cultural Studies; Cultural History

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839420072