| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 244 p.) |
| Series |
Studies on the history of society and culture ; [6] |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; [6]
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| Contents |
Michel Foucault's History of culture / Patricia O'Brien -- Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis / Suzanne Desan -- Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond / Aletta Biersack -- Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra / Lloyd S. Kramer -- The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan -- Texts, printing, readings / Roger Chartier -- Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Randolph Starn |
| Summary |
The essays in this book trace the influence of important models for the new cultural history, models ranging from the pathbreaking work of the French cultural critic Michel Foucault and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz to the imaginative efforts of such contemporary historians as Natalie Davis and E.P. Thompson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Social history -- Historiography
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Culture -- Historiography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Culture -- Historiography
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Social history -- Historiography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Biersack, Aletta.
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Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
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| LC no. |
2021696620 |
| ISBN |
9780520908925 |
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0520908929 |
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0585272778 |
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9780585272771 |
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