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Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

By Stefan Berger (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781789202915
DOI
10.1515/9781789202915
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2083093 bytes)
Series
Making Sense of History; 38
Pages
329\330
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:47:46

Description

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon’s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

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