Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Herausgeber: Paletschek, Sylvia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Opens up new field of study (popular histories) which promises to contribute in major way to investigation of broader historical cultures Intertextuality and interdisciplinarity point the way for future research in the area Explores popular histories in different media and popular historiography as part of memory culture

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780857458148
• ISBN-10: 0857458140
• Artikelnr.: 36832446

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Paletschek has been Professor in Modern History at the University of Freiburg (Germany) since 2001 and was Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's College at Oxford University in 2006-2007. Her research interests include women's and gender history, history of universities, memory culture, and history of historiography. Her publications include Women's Emancipation Movements in the 19th Century: A European Perspective (with Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Stanford University Press, 2004) and The Gender of Memory. Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe, (with Sylvia Schraut, Campus/Chicago University Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures 
Introduction: Why Analyse Popular Historiographies?
Sylvia Paletschek
Part I: Popular and Academic Historiographies in the 19th Century
Chapter 1. Questioning the Canon: Popular Historiography by Women in
Britain and Germany (1750-1850)
Angelika Epple
Chapter 2. Popular Presentations of History in the 19th Century: The
Example of Die Gartenlaube
Sylvia Paletschek
Chapter 3. Understanding the World around 1900: Popular Universal Histories
in Germany
Hartmut Bergenthum
Part II: Popular Presentations of History in Different Medias in the 20th
Century
Chapter 4. History for Readers: Popular Historiography 20th Century Germany
Wolfgang Hardtwig
Chapter 5. Between Political Coercion and Popular Expectations:
Contemporary History in the Radio of the German Democratic Republic
Christoph Classen
Chapter 6. Moving History: Fictional Films and the Nazi Past in Germany
since the late 1970s
Frank Bösch
Part III: Memory Culture and Popular Historiographies: Case Studies
Chapter 7. Memory History and the Standardization of History
Dieter Langewiesche
Chapter 8. The Second World War in the Popular Culture of Memory in Norway
Claudia Lenz
Chapter 9. Sissi: Popular Representations of an Empress
Sylvia Schraut
Chapter 10.  Scientists as Heroes? Einstein, Curie, and the Popular
Historiography of Science
Beat Ceranski
Chapter 11.  'Das Wunder von Bern'. The Football World Cup 1954, the German
Nation and Popular Histories
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography