Rethinking history: blurring the edges.
This article is intended to highlight the pressures and tensions inherent when academic history reaches out to a readership beyond its usual constituency. Issues of drama and entertainment become foregrounded, along with the privileging of certain incidents over others, in order to 'draw in' a non-s...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 91 - 119 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2010
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