The mapping of the consumption of culture reveals a complex cultural organization of economic transactions, social institutions and ideological apparatuses that continually redrew the boundaries between social classes, between public and private life, between high art and low, a…
This is a companion volume to the fourth edition of 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction'. Its aim is to provide a map of the development of the study of popular culture across the field of cultural theory from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studie…
This is a companion volume to the fourth edition of 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction'. Its aim is to provide a map of the development of the study of popular culture across the field of cultural theory from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studie…
"The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, an…
"Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characteriz…
"What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on…
