Popularizing National Pasts : 1800 to the Present

Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of popular national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is Europ...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Berger, Stefan 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lorenz, Chris 1950- (MitwirkendeR), Melman, Billie 1952- (MitwirkendeR)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Routledge, 2012
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Routledge Approaches to History Ser.
Schlagworte:Historiography Nationalism Historiography - Social aspects - Europe Electronic books Europa Nationalbewusstsein Popularisierung Geschichtsschreibung Geschichte 1800-2012
Umfang:1 online resource (377 pages)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; PART I Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 1 Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History; 2 History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France; 3 'That Which We Learn with the Eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris
  • 4 Popular Heritage and Commodification Debates in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain, France, and GermanyPART II Popular National Histories in Multiple Pasts from the Late 18th to the Late 20th Century: Ethnographies, Historiographies, Fiction and Film; 5 Imagining Russia's Pasts: Revolutionary and Tsarist Russia in American, British, and German Cinema, 1927-39; 6 Balkans Baedecker for Übermensch Tourists: Janko Janev's Popular Historiosophy; 7 Exhibiting Scandinavian Culture: The National Museums of Denmark and Sweden; 8 Locating Transylvanians: Real and Fictional Ethnohistories
  • PART III Popular and Unpopular Pasts: National Histories after 19459 Migrants, Foreigners, Jews, and the Cultural Structure of Prejudice: The Nation as Performative Event in US and German TV Crime Dramas; 10 Filming a Liveable Past: The 1970s-80s in Contemporary Russian Cinema; 11 On Track to the Grand Prix: The National Eurovision Competition as National History; 12 A City and Its Pasts: Popular Histories in Kaliningrad between Regionalization and Nationalization; 13 The Internet and National Histories
  • 14 'Unpopular Past': The Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo and their Rebellion against History; Notes on Contributors; Index;
  • ethnographies, historiographies, fiction and film
  • pt. 3. Popular and unpopular paste : national histories after 1945