Publication

2012 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004233799
  • ISBN-109004233792
  • Better World Books9789004233799
  • Open LibraryOL34375181M

Classifications

  • LCCDA530.H57 2013

Description

The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth of tourism and the emergence of a heritage industry. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized. They conclude that although nationalistic historicism ruled in all genres, the interaction of the nineteenth century with its imagined past was far richer and more complex, both across national borders and within them --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low CountriesBRILL2012-01-01

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