Review article
NARODNA STARINA: ITS HISTORICAL PEAKS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
Zdenka Janeković-Römer
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Narodna starina, which was published from 1922 to 1935, covered the fields of culture and society and tried to popularize history by using a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of the past. In addition to publishing discussions by leading scholars of the time, the journal also contained small articles that were an important part of the journal's contribution as an organ of culture.
Josip Matasović's work most clearly shows the basic concept of the journal. Although Matasović stressed the need to research the culture of every-day life, he intended not to create a rigid and exclusive methodology but rather to broaden a historiography that ignored such topics. He believed that social and economic problems should not be secondary to historiography and thrown into footnotes or feuilletons. Rather, he believed that »little history« could further the study and understanding of political history and that proportionate representation of both approaches should be a postulate of historical knowledge.
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209974
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Publication date:
1.9.1993.
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