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Record Nr.

UNISA996308823603316

Titolo

Cultural history in Europe : institutions - themes - perspectives / / edited by Jörg Rogge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-1724-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 5

Classificazione

NB 5600

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Civilization

Cultural policy

Social 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.

»Wer sich [für] Fachgeschichte, Stand der Forschung und der Institutionalisierung des Forschungsfeldes Kulturgeschichte in Europa interessiert, der ist mit diesem Band gut bedient.«  Silke Göttsch-Elten, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 108/II (2012)    Reviewed in:    Zeitschrift für Internationale Freimaurerforschung, 16/32 (2014), Astrid von Schlachta