How the Past was Used by Peter Lambert

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The book explores how human societies have used, constructed, and interpreted their pasts. It ranges chronologically from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and in worldwide geographical scope. The book probes the concept of the 'invention of tradition' and moves beyond historical writing to embrace a much wider range of media and genres.

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How the Past was Used by Peter Lambert

The book explores how human societies have used, constructed, and interpreted their pasts. It ranges chronologically from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and in worldwide geographical scope. The book probes the concept of the 'invention of tradition' and moves beyond historical writing to embrace a much wider range of media and genres.
Even when focusing on non-European or pre-1700 history, the authors question what makes America great, how war and warriors should be remembered, and what place women, minority cultures, and the Other hold.. Recommended * CHOICE *

Peter Lambert is Lecturer in Modern European History at Aberystwyth University. He works on historical culture in Nazi Germany, and the professionalization of History in the twentieth century. Publications include Mass Dictatorship as Ever-Present Past (2013), Historikerdialoge (2004), and Making History (2003). He is currently completing a study on the reception of Widukind and Charlemagne in the Third Reich.

Björn Weiler is Professor in History at Aberystwyth University. A historian of high medieval Europe, he has held visiting fellowships in Bergen, Cambridge (UK), Freiburg im Breisgau, and at Harvard. Publications include England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (with Ifor Rowlands, 2002), King Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire (2006), Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture (2007), and Representations of Power in Medieval Germany (with Simon MacLean, 2006). He is working on a book on the experience of the past in high medieval Europe.

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ISBN 13 9780197266120
ISBN 10 0197266126
Title How the Past was Used
Author Peter Lambert
Series Proceedings Of The British Academy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2017-08-24
Number of pages 330
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.