The Language of the Past

Prof. Ross Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-05805-7 (ISBN)

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The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the ‘stone age’, or characterize an institution as ‘byzantine’, to describe a business relationship as ‘feudal’ or to disparage ideals or morality as ‘Victorian’, refers to both a perception of the past and its relationship to the present. Whilst dictionaries and etymologies define meanings and origin points of words or phrases, this study examines how history is maintained and used within society through language.

Detailing the specific words and phrases associated with particular periods used to describe contemporary society, this thorough examination of language and history will be of great interest to those studying historiography, social history and linguistics.

Ross Wilson is Professor of Modern History and Public Heritage at the University of Chichester, UK. He is the author of Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums (2011), Landscapes of the Western Front (2012), Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain (2013) and New York in the First World War: Shaping an American City (2014).

Introduction
1. Speaking about the Past
2. Prehistoric
3. Ancient
4. Medieval
5. Modern
6. Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-05805-X / 135005805X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-05805-7 / 9781350058057
Zustand	Neuware