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The culture of history : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 /
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 survi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. - ;In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-354) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191538027 9781435609266 1435609263 9780191538025 1281145653 9781281145659 9786611145651 6611145656 |