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The culture of History : English uses of the Past 1800-1953
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ISBN: 019929688X 9780199296880 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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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 survived into the 1950s. - ;In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in t


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Empires of Antiquities : modernity and the rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950
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ISBN: 9780198824558 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of the imperial civilizations of the ancient Near East in a modern imperial order that evolved between 1914 and 1950. It explores the ways in which near eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of imperial regulation, modes of enquiry, and international and national politics. A series of globally publicised archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine made antiquity material visible and accessible as never before. The book demonstrates that the new definition and uses of antiquity and their relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war international imperial order, transnational collaboration and crises, the aspirations of national groups, and collisions between them and the British mandatories.

The culture of history
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ISBN: 1281145653 9786611145651 0191538027 1435609263 9781435609266 9780191538025 9781281145659 6611145656 019929688X 9780199296880 1383044139 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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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 survived into the 1950s.


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Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950
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ISBN: 0191863335 0192558005 0192558013 0198824556 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO

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Women and the popular imagination in the twenties: flappers and nymphs
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ISBN: 0333391950 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Macmillan

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Borderlines : genders and identities in war and peace, 1870-1930
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ISBN: 0415911141 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Routledge

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Women's orients : English women and the Middle East, 1718 - 1918 : sexuality, religion and work.
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ISBN: 0472082795 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan press

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Borderlines : genders and identities in war and peace 1870-1930
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Year: 1997 Publisher: New York ; London Routledge


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Women's orients, English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918 : sexuality, religion and work
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ISBN: 0333641442 Year: 1995 Publisher: London MacMillan

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Popular History Now and Then : International Perspectives
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ISBN: 9783839420072 9783837620078 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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