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Informationen zum Autor Lynn Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext "An important and provocative argument for the 'new cultural history,' an approach to history that stresses the importance of meaning in social action and the complexity of recovering the dynamics of expression and interpretation in the past."—Michael MacDonald, University of Wisconsin, Madison "An extremely important work that explains what is meant by 'the new cultural history.' It successfully explores the central ideas of this line of research, and it shows how this growing new field relates to developments in such other disciplines as anthropology. The book is uncommonly readable."—Elvin Hatch, University of California, Santa Barbara "A lively and timely guide to a body of theory, some of it notoriously difficult, that is currently shaping academic practice."—Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago Zusammenfassung Suitable for students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history, this book includes such 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: History! Culture! and Text LYNN HUNT Part One: Models for Cultural History 1. Michel Foucault's History of Culture PATRICIA o'BRIEN 2. Crowds! Community! and Ritual in the Work of E. P. Thompson and Natalie Davis SUZANNE DESAN 3· Local Knowledge! Local History: Geertz and Beyond ALETTA BIERSACK 4· Literature! Criticism! and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra LLOYD S. KRAMER Part Two: New Approaches 5· The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order MARY RYAN 6. Texts! Printing! Readings ROGER CHARTIER Contents 7· Bodies! Details! and the Humanitarian Narrative THOMAS W. LAQUEUR 8. Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince RANDOLPH STARN Contributors Index ...
