The new cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack [and others] ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 6.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989Description: 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceSubject(s): 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 -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: New cultural history.DDC classification: 306.09 LOC classification: HN13 | .N48 1989ebOnline resources: All EBSCO eBooksItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: History, culture, and text / Lynn Hunt -- 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.
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.
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