The New cultural history : essays by Aletta Biersack ... [and others] / edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biersack, Alette.

Hunt, Lynn, 1945-

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture

Studies on the history of society and culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--Historiography.

Social history.

Culture--Historiography.

Culture.

Physical Description:

ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1989]

Summary:

"An important and provocative argument for the 'new cultural history, ' an approach to history that stresses the importance of meaning in social action and the complexity of recovering the dynamics of expression and interpretation in the past."--Michael MacDonald, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"An extremely important work that explains what is meant by 'the new cultural history.' It successfully explores the central ideas of this line of research, and it shows how this growing new field relates to developments in such other disciplines as anthropology. The book is uncommonly readable."--Elvin Hatch, University of California, Santa Barbara

"A lively and timely guide to a body of theory, some of it notoriously difficult, that is currently shaping academic practice."--Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago

Contents:

Michel Foucault's History of culture / Patricia O'Brien

Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis / Suzanne Desan

Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond / Aletta Biersack

Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra / Lloyd S. Kramer

The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan

Texts, printing, readings / Roger Chartier

Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative / Thomas W. Laqueur

Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Randolph Starn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520064283

0520064291

OCLC:

18162924