| Description |
viii, 179 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
What is history? |
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What is history?
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| Contents |
1. The Great Tradition -- Classic Cultural History -- Culture and Society -- The Discovery of the People -- 2. Problems of Cultural History -- The Classics Revisited -- Marxist Debates -- The Paradoxes of Tradition -- Popular Culture in Question -- What is Culture? -- 3. The Moment of Historical Anthropology -- The Expansion of Culture -- The Moment of Historical Anthropology -- Under the Microscope -- Postcolonialism and Feminism -- 4. A New Paradigm? -- Four Theorists -- Practices -- Representations -- Material Culture -- The History of the Body -- 5. From Representation to Construction -- The Rise of Constructivism -- New Constructions -- Performances and Occasions -- Deconstruction -- 6. Beyond the Cultural Turn? -- Burckhardt's Return -- Politics, Violence and Emotions -- The Revenge of Social History -- Frontiers and Encounters -- Narrative in Cultural History |
| Summary |
"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 -- |
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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." --Book Jacket |
| Analysis |
Cultural studies |
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Social history |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [144]-170) and index |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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Culture -- History.
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History -- Methodology.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
2009368215 |
| ISBN |
0745644090 (hbk.) |
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0745644104 (paperback) |
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9780745644097 (hbk.) |
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9780745644103 |
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