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The Power of Culture - Critical Essays in American History (Hardcover, New)
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The Power of Culture - Critical Essays in American History (Hardcover, New)
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"We are in the midst of a dramatic shift in sensibility, and
'cultural' history is the rubric under which a massive doubting and
refiguring of our most cherished historical assumptions is being
conducted. Many historians are coming to suspect that the idea of
culture has the power to restore order to the study of the past.
Whatever its potency as an organizing theme, there is no doubt
about the power of the term 'culture' to evoke and stand for the
depth of the re-examination not taking place. At a time of deep
intellectual disarray, 'culture' offers a provisional, nominalist
version of coherence: whatever the fragmentation of knowledge,
however centrifugal the spinning of the scholarly wheel,
'culture'--which (even etymologically) conveys a sense of safe
nurture, warm growth, budding or ever-present wholeness--will
shelter us. The PC buttons on historians' chests today stand not
for 'politically correct' but 'positively cultural.'--from the
Introduction
More and more scholars are turning to cultural history in order to
make sense of the American past. This volume brings together nine
original essays by some leading practitioners in the field. The
essays aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to
understanding the range of American experiences from the
seventeenth century to the present.
Expanding on the editors' pathbreaking "The Culture of
Consumption," the contributors to this volume argue for a cultural
history that attends closely to language and textuality without
losing sight of broad configurations of power that social and
political history at its best has always stressed. The authors here
freshly examine crucial topics in both private and public life.
Takentogether, the essays shed new light on the power of culture in
the lives of Americans past and present.
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