| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-354) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Revolution (France : 1789-1799) |
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Popular culture -- Great Britain -- Historiography.
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Popular culture. |
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Great Britain. |
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Historiography. |
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History in art.
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History in art. |
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History in literature.
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History in literature. |
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History in mass media.
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History in mass media. |
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Great Britain -- Historiography.
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| Chronological Term |
1789-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Melman, Billie. Culture of history. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006009737 |
| ISBN |
0191538027 (electronic book) |
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9781435609266 (electronic book) |
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1435609263 (electronic book) |
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9780191538025 (electronic book) |
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1281145653 |
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9781281145659 |
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019929688X (Cloth) |
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9780199296880 |
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