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9783111504643: History from Below: Between Democratisation and Populism
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ISBN 10 : 3111504646 ISBN 13 : 9783111504643
Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025

Synopsis

What we know as history from below has long been considered a more democratic form of history-writing and research than forms of history that have counted, sometimes by default, as elite, and therefore by implication elitist. But history from below also has a tendency towards populism: an emphasis on authenticity, on voices uncontaminated by elite narratives, and a focus on the indigenous. Apart from its having a long-standing problem of finding sources to 'give voice' to the underrepresented, the question as to who can write about (and therefore represent) the people below, and a possible focus, in consequence, on themes of blood, soil, and the Volk.

This volume explores, over nine essays and an introductory thematic essay, these tensions and dichotomies. The purpose is to bring to the foreground a long-standing danger of celebrating voices from below, perhaps uncritically at times, and therefore also of a romanticisation of those voices.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brigitta Bernet, Zürich; Lutz Raphael, Trier; Benjamin Zachariah, Potsdam.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3111504646
ISBN 13 
9783111504643
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
308
Éditeur
Bernet Brigitta, Raphael Lutz, Zachariah Benjamin
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