Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Popularizing the Past
Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
Taschenbuch von Nick Witham
Sprache: Englisch

34,90 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
"Nick Witham investigates how widely popular history books have gotten written, promoted, and institutionalized. Not just a matter of writing style, popular accessibility is also a product of an author's frame of mind, the editor's skill, and the publisher's marketing acumen, among other factors. Witham has done extensive work not just in historians' archives but in publishers' files. His primary subjects are Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Gerda Lerner, and Howard Zinn-all popular historians who were explicitly concerned with the question of popularity. Collectively, they reveal the cross-influences of popular history writing and American popular culture"--
"Nick Witham investigates how widely popular history books have gotten written, promoted, and institutionalized. Not just a matter of writing style, popular accessibility is also a product of an author's frame of mind, the editor's skill, and the publisher's marketing acumen, among other factors. Witham has done extensive work not just in historians' archives but in publishers' files. His primary subjects are Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Gerda Lerner, and Howard Zinn-all popular historians who were explicitly concerned with the question of popularity. Collectively, they reveal the cross-influences of popular history writing and American popular culture"--
Über den Autor
Nick Witham is associate professor of United States history and head of department at the Institute of the Americas at University College London. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226826998
ISBN-10: 0226826996
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Witham, Nick
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 151 x 229 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Witham
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2023
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 125730871
Über den Autor
Nick Witham is associate professor of United States history and head of department at the Institute of the Americas at University College London. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226826998
ISBN-10: 0226826996
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Witham, Nick
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 151 x 229 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Witham
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2023
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 125730871
Warnhinweis