The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953

ISBN-13: 9780199296880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 384 str.

Billie Melman

Opis

Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s.

Recenzje

'tremendous breadth and analytical power ... a stunning contribution to historical scholarship on how the English past was understood.'

O autorze

Billie Melman was educated in Tel Aviv and London. She is Professor of Modern History at Tel Aviv University. She has written extensively on British popular culture, British orientalism and the culture of colonialism, on history and memory, and on gender.