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Book SynopsisSuitable 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.
Table of ContentsContents
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
