Что такое культуральная история?

One of the leading modern historians Peter Burke offers a guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, not only in the English-speaking world, but also in continental Europe, Asia, South America, significantly updated in the second edition. Burke begins by considering the "classical" phase of cultural history associated with the names of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and the Marxist reaction to it from Frederik Antal to Edward Thompson. Further, he offers a cartography of the directions of cultural history in more recent times, focusing mainly on the research activity of the representatives of today's generation. Immersing cultural history in its own cultural context, Burke emphasizes the links between new approaches to historical thought (and its textual expression) and the development of feminism, post-colonial studies and everyday discourse, in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important role. He also reviewed the latest innovations in... All this and more in What is Cultural History? Translator Polonskaya I.