Jerome De Groot

Gebundenes Buch

Consuming History

Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

Beschreibung

Consuming History examines the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. Fully revised throughout with up-to-date examples, this edition also includes new sections on the historical novel, gaming, social media and genealogy. Engaging with a broad spectrum of source material from computer games to daytime televisionand comparing the experiences of the UK, the USA, France and Germany as well as exploring more global trends, Consuming History offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.

Autor

Jerome de Groot teaches at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Remaking History (2015), The Historical Novel (2009), Royalist Identities (2004), and numerous articles on popular history, manuscript culture and the English civil war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781138905313
• ISBN-10: 1138905313
• Artikelnr.: 43775725

Rezensionen

"De Groot provides all students and practitioners of history with a fascinating overview of the diverse ways in which history is used by societies, and a nuanced understanding of both the rewards and challenges involved with representing the past to the public... The author's intellectual engagement with these topics is untouched by other publications."

Michael F. Dove, University of Western Ontario, Canada

"This is the only book that seriously addresses the relationship between history and popular culture in Britain today, and does so in an engaging, thoughtful and accessible way... the range of coverage in Consuming History is excellent."

Catherine Fletcher, University of Sheffield, UK

"This empirically rich, well-documented book surveys an impressively wide range of topics that the author divides into six often overlapping categories. De Groot (Univ. of Manchester, UK) concentrates heavily on the British experience and, in this second edition of a book first published in 2009, offers new topics, updated examples, and revised analyses. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

D. L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College, USA, CHOICE Reviews