What is cultural history?
by Burke, Peter
"What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. In this fully updated second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere." "Burke begins by providing a discussion of the 'classic' phase of cultural history, ass…
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"What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. In this fully updated second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere." "Burke begins by providing a discussion of the 'classic' phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and of the Marxist reaction, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the 'New Cultural History'. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the very latest developments in the field and considers the directions that cultural history may be taking in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2008.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Previous edition: 2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 179 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745644097, 0745644090, 9780745644103, 0745644104
- oclc:ocn227910582
- LC Classification:D13
- Dewey Decimal:909
Table of Contents
The great tradition -- Problems of cultural history -- The moment of historical anthropology -- A new paradigm? -- From representation to construction -- Beyond the cultural turn? -- Conclusion -- Afterword: cultural history in the twenty-first century.
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