The new cultural history : essays
Aletta Biersack, Lynn Hunt (Editor, Writer of introduction)
Much of the work in history has been affiliated with an effort to write history that is essentially a history of culture. This book features essays that provide an introduction to this movement within the discipline of history. It is intended for students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history.
Print Book, English, ©1989
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1989
ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520064287, 9780520064294, 0520064283, 0520064291
18162924
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: History, Culture, and Text LYNN HUNT Part One: Models for Cultural History 1. Michel Foucault's History of Culture PATRICIA o'BRIEN 2. Crowds, Community, and Ritual in the Work of E. P. Thompson and Natalie Davis SUZANNE DESAN 3· Local Knowledge, Local History: Geertz and Beyond ALETTA BIERSACK 4· Literature, Criticism, and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra LLOYD S. KRAMER Part Two: New Approaches 5· The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order MARY RYAN 6. Texts, Printing, Readings ROGER CHARTIER Contents 7· Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative THOMAS W. LAQUEUR 8. Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince RANDOLPH STARN Contributors Index
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