Popular History Now and Then : : International Perspectives / / ed. by Sylvia Paletschek, Barbara Korte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Stefan,; Crane, Susan A.,; De Groot, Jerome,; Döhl, Frédéric,; Förster, Birte,; Förster, Till,; Howsam, Leslie,; Korte, Barbara,; Lethbridge, Stefanie,; Melman, Billie,; Müller, Philipp,; Paletschek, Sylvia,; Sánchez-Marcos, Fernando,; Wiedemann, Antonie R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Korte, Barbara,; Paletschek, Sylvia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

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 disseminate...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Editorial
• Contents
• Popular History Now and Then
• Professional and Popular Historians
• The Bull of Nineveh
• Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press
• Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany
• The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits
• Wars and ›Little‹ Heroes
• Popular History, Gender and Nationalism
• Creating Popular Music History
• »Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful«
• Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture
• Shifting Imageries
• Seeing the Past 1800 – 1900 – 2000
• Afterword: Past, Present, Future
• List of Contributors
• Index