Essays about: "cultural history historiography"

Found 2 essays containing the words cultural history historiography.

1. 1. The power of memory and the political dialogue in Greece : The rise of radicalism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Eleftherios Ntotsikas; [2014]
   Keywords : European Studies; nationalism; Nazi Occupation; SYRIZA; collective memory; KKE; Independent Greeks; history; Civil War; Golden Dawn; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study explores the contexts in which the conflict evolved and how history was perceived, narrated and used by institutions, communities and individuals who sought to influence public opinion and policymakers. The theoretical point of departure is the concept of collective memory, defined as the totality of discourses through which a society makes sense of itself, the present and the future through the interpretation of the past. READ MORE

3. 2. Anton Nyström's Defense of Homosexuality

   University essay from Historia

   Author : Ronald Petrarca; [2010]
   Keywords : Nystrom; Anton; homosexuality; historiography; 19th-century; atheism; cultural history; homosexualitet; 1800-talet; kulturhistoria; ateism;

   Abstract : In 1919 Anton Nyström became the first person in Sweden to publish a comprehensive defense of homosexuality. He believed that its classification as a mental illness was erroneous and that Sweden's law against homosexual sex was both irrational and cruel. READ MORE