"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, …
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Many students view archaeological theory as a subject distinct from field research. This division is reinforced by the way theory is taught, often in stand-alone courses that focus more on logic and reasoning than on the application of ideas to fieldwork. Divorcing thought from …
With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represe…
This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, an…
It has long been taken for granted that the ideas of the European Enlightenment--of men like Locke, Hume, Voltaire, or Rousseau--profoundly affected America during the Revolutionary age. Yet there has been no full-length analysis of the movement of ideas from Europe to America i…
The Black history book
by Wilson, Jamie Jaywann, Blyden, Nemata Amelia, Akpan, Paula, Harper, Mireille, Lockhart, Keith, Maddox, Tyesha, Njoku, Raphael Chijioke, Pepera, Luke, Swainston, George, Walker, Robin, Olusoga, David, Graham, James, (Illustrator), Limerick, Anthony, Dorling Kindersley, Inc
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Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the most significant ideas a…
"The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips --recently voted the favourite dish in Britain-- to …
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space. This book brings together orig…
The cultural construction of the British world
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What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the case for a cultural British world, and examines how it took shape in a wide range of locati…