The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World

ISBN-13: 9781138649460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 584 str.

Alessandro Arcangeli; Jorg Rogge; Hannu Salmi

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This book is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. Engaging with historiographical debate and covering a vast range of themes, periods and places, it is the ideal resource for cultural history students and scholars to understand and advance this dynamic field.

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General Introduction  Part 1: Shaping Western Identities, 1250–1500  Introduction  1. Culture of Politics in the Middle Ages: Rituals to create and confirm political order  2. Cultures of Conflict  3. Material Cultures of Living: Spatiality and Everyday Life  4. Travel, Mobility, and Culture in Europe  5. Cultural Encounters and Transfer  6. Practices of Communication: Literacy, Gestures and Words  7. Making Sense of One’s Life and the World  8. Conceiving of Medieval Identities  9.  Body, Sexuality and Health  10. Contextualizing Medieval Emotions  Part 2: Europe meets the Globe: Western Identities in Question, 1500–1750  Introduction  11. God’s Green Garden: Interactions between humans and the environment  12. Material Cultures of Living: European Attitudes to Novelties  13. Reverence, Shame and Guilt in Early Modern European Cultures  14. Making Sense of the World: The Creation and Transfer of Knowledge  15. The Self: Representations and Practices  16. The Experience of Time  17. Written Communication: Publication, Textual Materiality and Appropriations  18. Mobility, Global Interaction and Cultural Transfers in the Age of Cultural Encounters  19. Faces of Power and Conflict  Part 3: The Western World and the Global Challenge, from 1750 to the present  Introduction  20. Enlightenment, Revolution and Melancholy  21. Individualism and Emotion in Modern Western Culture  22. Health and Illness, the Self and the Body  23. Family, Home and Variations in Domestic Life  24. Natural Disasters and Modernity  25. Cultures of Mobility  26. The Cultural Life of the Senses in Modernity  27. Media and Mediatization  28. Indigenous and Postcolonial Cultures  29. Violence and Trauma: Experiencing the Two World Wars  30. The Cold War Cultures and Beyond  31. The Culture of Commerce and the Global Economy  32. Epilogue: Cultural History in Retrospect