Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries : : Cultural Meanings, Social Practices /

Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries : : Cultural Meanings, Social Practices / / ed. by Sylvia Paletschek.

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Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic. This volume is one of the first to open up this new area of historical research, introducing some of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bergenthum, Hartmut,
Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef,
Bösch, Frank,
Ceranski, Beate,
Classen, Christoph,
Epple, Angelika,
Hardtwig, Wolfgang,
Langewiesche, Dieter,
Lenz, Claudia,
Paletschek, Sylvia,
Schraut, Sylvia,
HerausgeberIn:
Paletschek, Sylvia,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:New German Historical Perspectives ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Introduction: Why Analyse Popular Historiographies?
  • PART I Popular and Academic Historiographies in the Nineteenth Century
  • 2 Questioning the Canon: Popular Historiography by Women in Britain and Germany (1750–1850)
  • 3 Popular Presentations of History in the Nineteenth Century: The Example of Die Gartenlaube
  • 4 Understanding the World around 1900: Popular World Histories in Germany
  • PART II Popular Presentations of History in Different Medias in the Twentieth Century
  • 5 History for Readers: Popular Historiography in Twentieth-Century Germany
  • 6 Between Political Coercion and Popular Expectations: Contemporary History on the Radio in the German Democratic Republic
  • 7 Moving History: Film and the Nazi Past in Germany since the Late 1970s
  • PART III Memory Culture and Popular Historiographies: Case Studies
  • 8 Memory History and the Standardization of History
  • 9 The Second World War in the Popular Culture of Memory in Norway
  • 10 Sissi: Popular Representations of an Empress
  • 11 Scientists as Heroes? Einstein, Curie and the Popular Historiography of Science
  • 12 Das Wunder von Bern: The 1954 Football World Cup, the German Nation and Popular Histories
  • References
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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