The New cultural history
Subtitle: essays
By: by Aletta Biersack ... [et al.] ; edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt.
Contributors: Biersack, Aletta.; Hunt, Lynn Avery.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture -- [6]; Studies on the history of society and culture -- [6]
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Social history -- Historiography.; Culture -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Michel Foucault's History of culture / Patricia O'Brien; title: Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis / Suzanne Desan; title: Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond / Aletta Biersack; title: Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra / Lloyd S. Kramer; title: The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order / Mary Ryan; title: Texts, printing, readings / Roger Chartier; title: Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative / Thomas W. Laqueur; title: Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Randolph Starn.