What is Cultural History
ISBN: 9780745644103 | 0745644104
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 9/9/2008
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Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge.
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its 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 provid... MORE
What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its 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 provid... MORE
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| The Great Tradition | |
| Classic Cultural History | |
| Culture and Society | |
| The Discovery of the People | |
| Problems of Cultural History | |
| The Classics Revisited | |
| Marxist Debates | |
| The Paradoxes of Tradition | |
| Popular Culture in Question | |
| Wha... MORE | |
| The Moment of Historical Anthropology | |
| The Expansion of Culture | |
| The Moment of Historical Anthropology | |
| Under the Microscope | |
| Postcolonialism and Feminism | |
| A New Paradigm? | |
| Four Theorists | |
| Practices | |
| Representations | |
| Material Culture | |
| The History of the Body | |
| From Representation to Construction | |
| The Rise of Constructivism | |
| New Constructions | |
| Performances and Occasions | |
| Deconstruction | |
| Beyond the Cultural Turn? | |
| Burckhardt's Return | |
| Politics, Violence and Emotions | |
| The Revenge of Social History | |
| Frontiers and Encounters | |
| Narrative in Cultural History | |
| Conclusion | |
| Afterword: Cultural History in the Twenty-First Century | |
| A changing scene | |
| Cultural History and its Neighbours | |
| Culture in Question | |
| Notes | |
| Select Publications: A Chronological List | |
| Further Reading | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge.
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