The New cultural history : essays

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Biersack, Aletta, Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; [6]
Subjects:
Social history > Historiography.
Culture > Historiography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Culture > Historiography
Social history > Historiography
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Table of 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.

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