The culture of history : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 / Billie Melman.

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 survi...

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Main Author: Melman, Billie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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