New Directions in Social and Cultural History (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Handley, Sasha; Noakes, Lucy; Mcwilliam, Rohan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field.

The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472580825
• Artikelnr.: 50529430

Autorenporträt

Sasha Handley is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK. Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword
Frank Mort (University of Manchester
UK) Preface
Pamela Cox (University of Essex
UK) Introduction: Towards New Social and Cultural Histories
Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University
UK)
Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton
UK) and Sasha Handley (University of Manchester
UK) Part I: Histories of the Human 1. Subjectivity
the Self and Historical Practice
Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester
UK) 2. The History of Emotions
Rob Boddice (Max Planck Institute
Germany) 3. The Body and the Senses
Judith Allen (Indiana University
USA) Part II: The Material Turn 4. A Return to Materialism? Putting Social History Back into Place
Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire
UK) 5. Markets and Cultures
Donna Loftus (Open University
UK) 6. Visual and Material Cultures
Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University
USA) 7. Public Histories
Paul Ashton (University of Technology Sydney
Australia) and Meg Foster (University of New South Wales
Australia) Part III: Challenges and Provocations 8. Animal Human Histories
Hilda Kean (University of Greenwich and University College London
UK) 9. New Directions in Transnational History: Thinking and Living Transnationally
Durbha Ghosh (Cornell University
USA) 10. Environmental History
John Morgan (University of Manchester
UK) 11. Spatial Histories
Nicola Whyte (University of Exeter
UK) Afterword: Digital History
Seth Denbo (American Historical Association
USA) Index