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The new cultural history : essays /
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 dee...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1989.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal051/88019889.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/88019889.html |
Table of 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.