History from Below Between Democratisation and Populism [#959616]

Free Download Brigitta Bernet, "History from Below: Between Democratisation and Populism "
English | ISBN: 3111504646 | 2025 | 308 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What we know as history from below has long been considered a more democratic form of history-writing and research than forms of history that have counted, sometimes by default, as elite, and therefore by implication elitist. But history from below also has a tendency towards populism: an emphasis on authenticity, on voices uncontaminated by elite narratives, and a focus on the indigenous. Apart from its having a long-standing problem of finding sources to 'give voice' to the underrepresented, the question as to who can write about (and therefore represent) the people below, and a possible focus, in consequence, on themes of blood, soil, and the Volk.