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The New Cultural History (Paperback)
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The New Cultural History (Paperback)
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 6
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Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary
boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged
their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from
rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics,
for example, have turned to history for a deepening of their notion
of cultural products; some of them now read historical documents in
the same way that they previously read 'great' texts.
Anthropologists have turned to the history of their own discipline
in order to better understand the ways in which disciplinary
authority was constructed. As historians have begun to participate
in this ferment, they have moved away from their earlier focus on
social theoretical models of historical development toward concepts
taken from cultural anthropology and literary criticism. Much of
the most exciting work in history recently has been affiliated with
this wide-ranging effort to write history that is essentially a
history of culture. The essays presented here provide an
introduction to this movement within the discipline of history. The
essays in Part One trace the influence of important models for the
new cultural history, models ranging from the path breaking 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, as
well as the more controversial theories of Hayden White and
Dominick LaCapra. The essays in Part Two are exemplary of the most
challenging and fruitful new work of historians in this genre, with
topics as diverse as parades in 19th-century America, 16th-century
Spanish texts, English medical writing, and the visual practices
implied in Italian Renaissance frescoes. Beneath this diversity,
however, it is possible to see the commonalities of the new
cultural history as it takes shape. Students, teachers, and general
readers interested in the future of history will find these essays
stimulating and provocative.
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