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Popular History Now and Then

其他書名	An Introduction
出版	Universität, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0f_GswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Zusammenfassung: It is a commonplace by now to state that the popular representation of history is booming. This rising interest in history emerged in the 1980s, and it has been at a peak since the second half of the 1990s. This trend is reflected in such indicators as increasing numbers of visitors to historical exhibitions and museums; considerable public interest in controversies among historical experts; and the prominence of historical topics in new and old media, in documentary and fictional genres, or in performative forms (theme parks, living history and re-enactments). Numerous websites on the internet, articles on wikipedia, CD-ROM productions and historical computer games attest the phenomenon's expansion into the digital media. We witness these trends all over the world, in the global North as well as increasingly in the global South. In many cultures, representations of history are of major significance for the negotiation of national, ethnic and regional identities. The contemporary re-turn to history helps to construct continuity and orientation. But engagement with history, particularly through popular display, can also satisfy,the need for emotional and aesthetic experience and for adventure, for a risk-free encounter with what is strange, different or "other" and, finally, for relaxation and diversion. At the same time, public and state organisations, social elites and political groups draw on popular images of history to legitimise either the status quo or political change