HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SHOEMAKING AND FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY IN THE BOHEMIAN LANDS FROM ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, REGIONAL AND URBAN HISTORY PERSPECTIVES: STATE OF RESEARCH AND NEW APPROACHES

• Authors: Jemelka Martin , Ševeček Ondřej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The history of shoemaking and the footwear industry is a well-established topic in Czech economic and social, as well as regional and urban historiography. A broad range of topics and approaches to this area of research can be found in Czech historiography. One drawback of the continuous interest in the history of shoemaking and the footwear industry is the lack of suitable methodology and the existence of many as yet unexplored topics, especially as regards the period after 1945. This study presents an overview, based on chronology and genre, of the existing historiographical work in the field of economic, social, regional and urban history. It also draws attention to the so-called New Product History, a methodological perspective not yet established in the Czech environment. Its advantage lies in its broad contextualization of the history of a particular product by conducting a historical analysis of the product life cycle.

Keywords

EN

SHOEMAKING; FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY; BOHEMIAN LANDS; HISTORIOGRAPHY; NEW PRODUCT HISTORY; REGIONAL HISTORY; URBAN HISTORY

• Publisher: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• Journal: Mesto a dejiny
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87 – 122

Contributors

author

Jemelka Martin

• Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2717-6922

author

Ševeček Ondřej

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-05