The new cultural history essays (University of California Press, 1989)
Includes bibliographical references
The essays in this book trace the influence of important models for the new cultural history, models ranging from the pathbreaking work of the French cultural critic Michel Foucault and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz to the imaginative efforts of such contemporary historians as Natalie Davis and E.P. Thompson
Introduction - History, culture, and text - Lynn Hunt -- - Michel Foucault's history of culture - Patricia O'Brien -- - Crowds, community, and ritual in the work of E.P. Thompson and Natalie Davis - Suzanne Desan -- - Local knowledge, local history : Geertz and beyond - Aletta Biersack -- - Literature, criticism, and historical imagination : the literary challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra - Lloyd S. Kramer -- - The American parade : representations of the nineteenth-century social order - Mary Ryan -- - Texts, printing, readings - Roger Chartier -- - Bodies, details, and the humanitarian narrative - Thomas W. Laqueur -- - Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince - Randolph Starn