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Author Melman, Billie.

Title The culture of history : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 / Billie Melman.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-354) and index.
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Summary 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.
Subject Revolution (France : 1789-1799) (OCoLC)fst01354514
Popular culture -- Great Britain -- Historiography.
History in art.
History in literature.
History in mass media.
Great Britain -- Historiography.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography.
HISTORY.
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
History in art. (OCoLC)fst00958337
History in literature. (OCoLC)fst00958338
History in mass media. (OCoLC)fst01200364
Popular culture -- Historiography. (OCoLC)fst01071359
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Amusement.
Beeldcultuur.
Massamedia.
Populaire cultuur.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Chronological Term 1789-1799
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Melman, Billie. Culture of history. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006009737
ISBN 0191538027 (electronic bk.)
9781435609266 (electronic bk.)
1435609263 (electronic bk.)
9780191538025 (electronic bk.)
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