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Writing the History of Emotions:Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics (Writing History)
by: Ute Frevert (Author)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2024-03-21
Language: English
Print Length: 340 pages
ISBN-10: 1350345881
ISBN-13: 9781350345881
Book Description
Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home. Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury’s successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history. Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to illustrate the different emotional meanings one particular material object has had throughout history. This book sheds light on how emotions have been used, instrumentalised and manipulated both to propel and suspend democratic politics. In doing so, it opens a rich new avenue of research for the history of emotions.
About the Author
Heiko Feldner is Senior Lecturer in Mode German History at Cardiff University, UK.
Heiko Feldner is co-director of the Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies at Cardiff University, UK. He is also the General Editor of Bloomsbury's Writing History series on historiography and historical theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. A former lecturer in the departments of political economy and history at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he has written several books, including Zizek:Beyond Foucault (with F. Vighi, Palgrave 2007).
Kevin Passmore is Professor of History at Cardiff University, UK.
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany:Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe:1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury's successful student book series, Writing History.
