Public and Popular History

Informationen zum Autor Jerome de Groot is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of The Historical Novel (2009), Consuming History (2008) and Royalist Identities (2004), as well as numerous articles on manuscript studies, historiography, popular history and early modern court culture. Klappentext This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Rethinking History. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Rethinking History. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Jerome de Groot 1. The Making History initiative and Australian popular history Michelle Arrow 2. Intervention: Public Women and Public History: Revolution, Prostitution and Testimony in Cuba Carrie Hamilton 3. Going on an Outing: the Historic House and Queer Public History Alison Oram 4. A ‘phantom freedom in a phantom modernity’?: Protestant Missionaries, Domestic Ideology and Narratives of Modernity in an Arab Context Hoda Elsadda 5. Intervention: Some thoughts on the problem of ‘popular/public history’ in China Gotelind Müller 6. Public history and the fragments of place: archaeology, history, and heritage site development in southern Alberta James Opp 7. ‘perpetually dividing and suturing the past and present’: Mad Men and the illusions of history Jerome de Groot 8. Intervention: Hacking history, from analog to digital and back again William J. Turkel ...

Product details

• Authors: Jerome (University of Manchester De Groot
• Assisted by: Jerome De Groot (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780415521710
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52171-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, Nationalism, Social & cultural history, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, General & world history, Social & political philosophy, History of Religion, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Gay & Lesbian studies, General and world history, History: theory and methods, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics