Explorations In Cultural History
T. G. Ashplant, Gerry Smyth, "Explorations In Cultural History"
Plu to Pr ess | 2011 | ISBN: 0745315178, 0745315127 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
Plu to Pr ess | 2011 | ISBN: 0745315178, 0745315127 | 192 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
Cultural history has opened up innovative approaches to the research and writing of history. The central themes of this volume are that culture is historically conditioned and history culturally conditioned. The production of history is now clearly recognized as a cultural practice, an invention in the present, as much as a representation and interpretation of the past.
Both theoretical and practical in its approach, this book explores the development of cultural history, and its impact on current teaching. Part 1 examines the ways in which conceptions of historical meaning have been challenged, via developments in a range of disciplines (including literary and linguistic theory, history, sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies). Part 2 looks at four case studies drawn from America and Britain: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the music of the Beatles, the social documentary of George Orwell, and the political polemics of nineteenth-century British radical women.
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