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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213857503321

Titolo

Cultural History in Europe : Institutions – Themes – Perspectives / Jörg Rogge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

2014, c2011

ISBN

9783839417249

3839417244

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

Classificazione

NB 5600

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Cultural History

Europe

Methods

Institutions

Theory

European History

Theory of History

Cultural Studies

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Editorial    2 CONTENTS    5 Welcome Address    7 Traditions, Topics and Trends in Cultural History in Europe-an Introduction    11 From Ethnology and Folklore Studies to Cultural History in Scandinavia    31 Traditions of Cultural History in Finland, 1900-2000    45 The Practice of Cultural History in Britain    63 The Cultural History MA at the University of Aberdeen, 1986-2011: a personal reflection    79 Perspectives of the Cultural History in Latvia: The 20th century and beyond    91 A would-be science?    125 Achievements and Contradictions in the Writing and Teaching of Cultural History in Hungary    141 Beyond the Alpine Myth, Across the Linguistic Ditch    157 What's new about the New Cultural History?    171 We've only just begun    191 Cultural History in Spain    211 Cultural History in Italy    



239 Contributors    257

Sommario/riassunto

What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future?These and other questions are raised by European scholars in the discussion of Institutions, Themes and Perspectives of Cultural History in this volume. It provides a profound overview of contemporary developments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain.

»Der Band besticht durch seine breite Sicht auf die europäische kulturhistorische Forschung.«

Reviewed in:Zeitschrift für Internationale Freimaurerforschung, 16/32 (2014), Astrid von Schlachta

»Wer sich [für] Fachgeschichte, Stand der Forschung und der Institutionalisierung des Forschungsfeldes Kulturgeschichte in Europa interessiert, der ist mit diesem Band gut bedient.«