What Is Cultural History?

ISBN-13: 9781509522200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Peter Burke

Opis

"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 third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history across the globe"--

Recenzje

'Here is a classic, fluently updated to include recent developments in the field. This is a must for all students of cultural history, a feast prepared by a master.'Jay Winter, Yale University'Peter Burke has done it again! This lucid book will delight any reader who wants to understand cultural history.'Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 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
• 7. Cultural History in the Twenty–First Century
• A changing scene
• Cultural History and its Neighbours
• Culture in Question
• The Natural Turn
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Select Publications: A Chronological List
• Further Reading
• Index

O autorze

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge