Popular History Now and Then: International Perspectives

Barbara Korte · Sylvia Paletschek

mar 2014 · Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures Libro 6 · transcript Verlag

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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 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.

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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.