0599871 - MÚA 2025 RIV SK eng J - Journal Article
Jemelka, Martin - Ševeček, Ondřej
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.
The City and History. Roč. 13, č. 1 (2024), s. 87-122. ISSN 1339-0163. E-ISSN 1339-0163
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA24-12500S
Institutional support: RVO:67985921 ; RVO:67985955
Keywords : footwear industry * Bohemian lands * historiography
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impact factor: <0.1, year: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
Result website:
https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-05DOI: https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-05

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 fi eld of economic, social, regional and urban history. It also draws attention to the so-called New Product History (Produktgeschichte), 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 (historische Produktlinienanalyse).
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