History Sells: Angewandte Geschichte als Wissenschaft und Markt
History Sells: Angewandte Geschichte als Wissenschaft und Markt
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历史销售:科学与市场的应用历史
DOI:
10.1093/gerhis/ghr058
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
0.6
通讯作者:
S. Berger
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作者:
S. Berger
History is popular, but the history of historiography has to date neglected forms of popular historywriting and we are only recently seeing volumes which address this lacuna. One of them is under discussion here. The book sets itself the task of surveying the terrain of ‘public history’under the conditions of the contemporary information and media societies. Many of its authors are themselves public historians who provide glimpses of their own attempts to popularize history without necessarily abandoning all vestiges of scientificity.The thirty-eight contributions are grouped under four headings. In the first section the functions, perspectives and debates surrounding public history are the focus of attention. Marianne Sommer reports on what could be seen as the rather worrying impact of genetics on the popularization of prehistory. Daniel Schläppi argues convincingly that popular and professional history-writing do not have to be at loggerheads. Christoph Kühberger talks about the practices of history consulting and argues in favour of an ethical codex for public historians. Mathias Berek reflects on the vital importance of the modern mass media for contemporary memory cultures. Achim Saupe sees a ‘detective narrative’underlying many narratological constructions of both ‘scientific histories’ and more popular histories. Michaela Fenske examines the concept of time travel in popular forms of