The Adaptation of History

<p> This collection of essays asks the question What is history? and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach in the belief that everyone who deals with history--including professional historians novelists and poets--constructs narratives of the past to make sense of the present as well as to determine their future courses of action. With contributions from a variety of specialists in media studies literature history and anthropology this book breaks new ground in adaptation studies.</p>