Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

by Jerome de Groot

Book Overview

Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation.

In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138905321
• ISBN13: 9781138905320
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"