Popularizing the Past

preview-18
  • Popularizing the Past Book Detail

  • Author : Nick Witham
  • Release Date : 2023-07-26
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 229
  • ISBN 13 : 0226826996
  • File Size : 54,54 MB

Popularizing the Past by Nick Witham PDF Summary

Book Description: "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"--

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Popularizing the Past books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Popularizing the Past

Popularizing the Past

File Size : 48,48 MB
Total View : 4914 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Nick Witham investigates how widely popular history books have gotten written, promoted, and institutionalized. Not just a matter of writing style, popular acc

The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era

The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 3704 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in "Reaganomi

Israel in the American Mind

Israel in the American Mind

File Size : 10,10 MB
Total View : 5383 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines the changing meanings Americans and Israelis invested in the relationship between their countries from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Bringing

A Drop of Treason

A Drop of Treason

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 4876 Views
DOWNLOAD

Philip Agee’s story is the stuff of a John le Carré novel—perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becomi