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"What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history across the globe"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Modes of the Subject in Cultural History -- 1 No Sex Please, Were American: Erotophobia, Liberation, and Cultural History -- 2 Foucault's Technologies of the Self and the Cultural History of Identity -- 3 Foucault s Rhetorical Consciousness and the Possibilities of Acting upon a Regime of Truth -- 4 Power and Political Spirituality: Michel Foucault on the Islamic Revolution in Iran -- Part II. Modes of Doing Cultural History -- 5 Foucault Reformed by Certeau: Historical Strategies of Discipline and Everyday Tactics of Appropriation -- 6 Answering Foucault: Notes on Modes of Order in the Cultural World and the Making of History -- 7 Foucault s Shells, Freud s Symptoms: Towards a Psychoanalytic Conception of Cultural History -- 8 Reading/Writing/Killing: Foucault, Cultural History and the French Revolution -- Part III. Modes of Conceptualizing Cultural History -- 9 The Process of Intellectual Change: A Post-Foucaultian Hypothesis -- 10 Periodization as a Technique of Cultural Identification -- 11 The Suppression of the Negative Moment in Foucault s History of Sexuality -- 12 Foucault in Gay America: Sexuality at Plymouth Plantation -- 13 Philosophy in the Filigree of Power: The Limits of an Immanent Critique -- Bibliography

Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his 'First XI: The best Australian history books'. The book focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are today's Australians. The story begins with the 60,000 years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes readers through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This 3rd Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that 'we may get the future we deserve'. [Some images unavailable for OA]

The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its ""classic"" form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. Among the themes of individual chapters are the history of popular culture, the history of Carnival, the history of mentalities, the history of gestures, the history of jokes, and even the history of dreams. The emphasis of both the introduction and the case-studies which follow is on the variety of forms taken by cultural history tod

The term 'idiot' is a damning put down, whether deployed on the playground or in the board room. People stigmatized as being 'intellectually disabled' today must confront variants of the fear and pity with which society has greeted them for centuries. In this ground-breaking new study Patrick McDonagh explores how artistic, scientific and sociological interpretations of idiocy work symbolically and ideologically in society. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of British, French and American resources including literary works (Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy, Dickens Barnaby Rudge, Conrad's The Secret Agent), pedagogical works (Itard's The Wild Boy of Aveyron, Sequin's Traitement moral, hygiene et education des idiots, and Howe's On the courses of Idiocy), medical and scientific papers (Philippe Pinel, Henry Maudsley, William Ireland, John Langdon Downs, Isaac Kerlin, Henry Goddard) and sociological writings (Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, Beames' The Rookeries of London, Dugdal's The Jukes), Idiocy: A Cultural History offers a rich study of the history and representation of mental disability