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Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? The focus is set on the evangelical Leisure Hour with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialisation of history in text and image combines periodical studies and book history with concepts from cultural studies, sociology as well as narratology. »An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism.« Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018) Besprochen in: Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26.10.2017, Janet G. Casey Victorian Periodicals Review, 50/4 (2017), Ruth M. McAdams Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 58/4 (2019), Andrea Henderson

Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History --- Periodicals; Victorian Culture; Historical Culture; Popular History; Popular Culture; Media; Social History; 19th Century; England; Cultural History; British History; Memory Culture; History --- 19th Century. --- British History. --- Cultural History. --- England. --- Historical Culture. --- History. --- Media. --- Memory Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Popular History. --- Social History. --- Victorian Culture.

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The dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort's inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles. Still, the battle was significant for another reason as well. During its existence, Negro Fort was a powerful symbol of black freedom that subverted the racist foundations of an expanding American slave society. Its destruction reinforced the nation's growing commitment to slavery, while illuminating the extent to which ambivalence over the institution had disappeared since the nation's founding. Indeed, four decades after declaring that all men were created equal, the United States destroyed a fugitive slave community in a foreign territory for the first and only time in its history, which accelerated America's transformation into a white republic. The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.

Fugitive slaves --- Negro Fort, Battle of, Fla., 1816. --- History --- United States --- Florida. --- West Florida --- Florida --- History. --- Andrew Jackson. --- Army. --- Bahamas. --- Battle of New Orleans. --- Benjamin Hawkins. --- Bowlegs. --- Choctaws. --- Creek Indians. --- Creeks. --- Duncan Clinch. --- Edmund Gaines. --- Edward Nicolls. --- George Woodbine. --- John Brown. --- Joshua Giddings. --- Native Americans. --- Navy. --- Nero. --- Prospect Bluff. --- Red Sticks. --- Seminole War. --- Seminoles. --- Slave Power. --- War of 1812. --- William Jay. --- William Lloyd Garrison. --- William McIntosh. --- congressional investigation. --- expansion. --- interracial alliance. --- maroon. --- maroons. --- popular history. --- slavery.

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Writing on Japanese cinema has prioritized aesthetic and cultural difference, and obscured Japan's contribution to the representation of real life in cinema and related forms. Donald Richie, who was instrumental in introducing Japanese cinema to the West, even claimed that Japan did not have a true documentary tradition due to the apparent preference of Japanese audiences for stylisation over realism, a preference that originated from its theatrical tradition. However, a closer look at the history of Japanese documentary and feature film production reveals an emphasis on actuality and everyday life as a major part of Japanese film culture. That 'documentary mode' – crossing genre and medium like Peter Brooks' 'melodramatic mode' rather than limited to styles of documentary filmmaking alone – identifies rhetoric of authenticity in cinema and related media, even as that rhetoric was sometimes put in service to political and economic ends. The articles in this Special Issue, ‘Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode’, trace important changes in documentary film schools and movements from the 1930s onwards, sometimes in relation to other media, and the efforts of some post-war filmmakers to adapt the styles and ethical commitments that underpin documentary's "impression of authenticity" to their representation of fictional worlds

ethnofiction --- Japan --- documentary --- non-fiction --- dramatization --- Minamata disease --- Tsuchimoto Noriaki --- W. Eugene Smith --- Ishimure Michiko --- ethics of representation --- The Children of Minamata are Living --- Minamata: The Victims and Their World --- authorship --- documentary film --- hibakusha --- Japanese cinema --- Mizoguchi Kenji --- semi-documentary --- Shindō Kaneto --- film theory --- documentary film theory --- postwar Japan --- post-1945 Japan --- Hani Susumu --- cinéma verité --- direct cinema --- observational documentary --- cinematography --- the culture film --- Imamura Shōhei --- History of Post-War Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess --- fiction and documentary --- history --- memory --- experience --- magic lantern --- popular history movement --- avant-garde documentary --- new Left --- Teshigahara Hiroshi --- Adachi Masao --- subjectivity --- landscapes --- folklore studies --- documentary photography --- n/a --- Shindō Kaneto --- cinéma verité --- Imamura Shōhei

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To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance-how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies-is the subject of Frank L. Holt's absorbing book. Solid evidence for the "supernaturalized" Alexander lies in a rare series of medallions that depict the triumphant young king at war against the elephants, archers, and chariots of Rajah Porus of India at the Battle of the Hydaspes River. Recovered from Afghanistan and Iraq in sensational and sometimes perilous circumstances, these ancient artifacts have long animated the modern historical debate about Alexander. Holt's book, the first devoted to the mystery of these ancient medallions, takes us into the history of their discovery and interpretation, into the knowable facts of their manufacture and meaning, and, ultimately, into the king's own psyche and his frightening theology of war. The result is a valuable analysis of Alexander history and myth, a vivid account of numismatics, and a spellbinding look into the age-old mechanics of megalomania.

Coins, Greek. --- Coins, Ancient. --- Elephants in numismatics. --- Ancient coins --- Antieke munten --- Coins [Ancient ] --- Coins [Greek ] --- Elephants in numismatics --- Eléphants dans la numismatique --- Greek coins --- Monnaies -- Antiquité --- Monnaies antiques --- Monnaies de l'Antiquité --- Monnaies grecques --- Munten [Antieke ] --- Munten [Griekse ] --- Munten van de oudheid --- Numismatiek [Olifanten in de ] --- Numismatique [Eléphants dans la ] --- Olifanten in de numismatiek --- Alexander, --- Numismatics. --- Elephant (in numismatics) --- Alejandro, --- Alekjhāṇḍara, --- Aleksandar, --- Aleksander, --- Aleksandr, --- Alekʻsandre, --- Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, --- Alessandro, --- Alexander --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros --- Alexandros, --- Alexandros, Megalos, --- Alexandru, --- Alexantros, --- Iskandar, --- Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, --- Megalexandros, --- Megas Alexandros, --- Nagy Sándor, --- Sikandar, --- Iskender, --- Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος --- אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, --- אלכסנדר, --- اسكندر كبير --- اسکندر اعظم --- سکندراعظم --- Numismatics --- Aleksandŭr, --- Александър, --- Македонски, Александър, --- Coins, Ancient --- Coins, Greek --- Alexander the Great --- Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- Numismatics.. --- Coins, Ancient.. --- Coins, Greek.. --- afghanistan. --- alexander the great. --- ancient history. --- ancient medallions. --- battle of the hydaspes river. --- biographical. --- biography. --- conquests. --- discussion books. --- elephant medallions. --- european history. --- hellenistic culture. --- hellenistic period. --- hellenistic society. --- historians. --- historical perspective. --- india. --- iraq. --- megalomania. --- myths and legends. --- nonfiction. --- numismatics. --- popular history. --- rajah porus. --- retrospective. --- supernatural success. --- theology of war. --- war. --- warfare.