The new cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack [and others] ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989. - 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrations. - Studies on the history of society and culture ; [6] . - Studies on the history of society and culture ; 6. .

Includes bibliographical references.

History, culture, and text / Michel Foucault's history of culture / Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis / Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond / Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra / The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Texts, printing, readings / Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative / Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Lynn Hunt -- Patricia O'Brien -- Suzanne Desan -- Aletta Biersack -- Lloyd S. Kramer -- Mary Ryan -- Roger Chartier -- Thomas W. Laqueur -- Randolph Starn. Introduction:

The essays in this book trace the influence of important models for the new cultural history, models ranging from the pathbreaking work of the French cultural critic Michel Foucault and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz to the imaginative efforts of such contemporary historians as Natalie Davis and E.P. Thompson.



22573/cttt019n JSTOR

008749570 Uk


Social history--Historiography.
Culture--Historiography.
Histoire sociale--Historiographie.
Culture--Historiographie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.
Culture--Historiography.
Social history--Historiography.


Electronic books.

HN13 / .N48 1989eb

306.09 / B478
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