Consuming History by Jerome de Groot - 9781138905313

Taylor & Francis

Consuming HistoryHistorians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture\nAuthor(s): Jerome de Groot\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138905313, 978-1138905313\nSynopsis\nConsuming 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.\n\nIn this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologies from online game-playing to internet genealogy have brought about a shift in access to history, discussing the often conflicted relationship between public and academic history and raising important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Fully revised throughout with up.