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.
| ISBN: | 9781836950714 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 2025 |
| Author: | Stefan Berger |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 329 pages |
| Series: | Making Sense of History |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Industrialisation and industrial history Museology and heritage studies |
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.
Constructing Industrial Pasts features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Industrialisation and industrial history, Museology and heritage studies
Constructing Industrial Pasts is available in Paperback, Hardback
Constructing Industrial Pasts was written by Stefan Berger and published by Berghahn Books
Constructing Industrial Pasts has 329 pages
Yes it is part of Making Sense of History series
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