Pop History and its Consequences

“Pop” History is a term that’s a bit rough to define, but loosely covers the idea of history media made for popular consumption, with varying degrees of rigor and penetration into the public consciousness. This video aims to clarify its boundaries, constraints, and purpose.


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Sources:

Alexopoulos, Golfo. Journal of Cold War Studies 10, no. 1 (2008): 132–36.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926121

Combe, M. M. (2011). Book Review: The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got it). Environmental Law Review, 13(3), 242-243. https://doi.org/10.1350/enlr.2011.13....

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, 2000

Glubb, John Bagot. The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1977.
Goodare, Julian. “The Statutes of Iona in Context.” The Scottish Historical Review 77, no. 203 (1998): 31–57. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25530804

Gretton, G 2011, 'Andy Wightman, The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It',
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 329-31. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2011.0047

Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. (2004) London: Phoenix, 2020.
Wightman, Andy. The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It. Edinburgh: BIRLINN LTD, 2015.

Wynn, Charters. Slavic Review 69, no. 4 (2010): 1009–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27896172

The reddit post:
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Timestamps:
00:00 intro
06:30 Truisms
12:54 Theories of Everything (Glubb)
17:16 Outsider History
31:58 Bestseller History
47:38 Conclusion