What is Cultural History

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge.

出版者:Polity

作者:Peter Burke

页数:168

出版时间:2008-9-2

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780745644103

丛书系列:What is History? Series

图书标签:文化史历史文化研究culture社会学历史学historyPeter_Burker

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 second edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible guide to the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere.

Burke begins by providing a discussion of the 'classic' phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and of the Marxist reaction, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the 'New Cultural History'. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the very latest developments in the field and considers the directions cultural history may be taking in the twenty-first century.

The second edition of What is Cultural History? will continue to be an essential textbook for all students of history as well as those taking courses in cultural, anthropological and literary studies.

读后感

第72页：最近一项对中国晚清书籍和士大夫文化的研究讨论了书籍的传播以及传播的失败，其中引用了这样一句格言：“借人以书非明智之举，借书又归还亦非明智。” 一般智识水准的读者，不难猜想到那句格言或许是“借书一痴，还书一痴”（瓻、嗤毋论，刘永翔先生的考证可见《清波...  

第72页：最近一项对中国晚清书籍和士大夫文化的研究讨论了书籍的传播以及传播的失败，其中引用了这样一句格言：“借人以书非明智之举，借书又归还亦非明智。” 一般智识水准的读者，不难猜想到那句格言或许是“借书一痴，还书一痴”（瓻、嗤毋论，刘永翔先生的考证可见《清波...  

第72页：最近一项对中国晚清书籍和士大夫文化的研究讨论了书籍的传播以及传播的失败，其中引用了这样一句格言：“借人以书非明智之举，借书又归还亦非明智。” 一般智识水准的读者，不难猜想到那句格言或许是“借书一痴，还书一痴”（瓻、嗤毋论，刘永翔先生的考证可见《清波...  

很好的一本书，不是有多少独创见，而是对于西方文化史信手拈来的点评，虽也不免是资料的汇集，然而却是让人大开眼界，尤其对于我们这些历史学的“门外人”。 任你如何都难以想象到，文化史已经眼界到了眼泪史、嗅觉史、身体史，甚至是脚注史、嫉妒史，举凡我们可以看到...  

翻完这书，不由得赞叹国内的译介力度。 我最近几年，几乎都在看中文本，可是彼得·伯克提到的这些人物和书籍，竟也看个八九不离十。怪不得西毒说，在中国做学问，再无须自轻自卑了，我们的视界够开阔。 不过塞尔托我确实不知道。他做的关于Louton一群修女被魔鬼附身的研究，谁...

用户评价

入门读物，对文化史的发展演进有很详细的介绍。

And now the pendulum has swung uncontrollably in all directions.

以前翻看过第一版，这次读了第二版，写的很清楚。后面附录里有一个很棒的书目，列出了1860-2007 年的重要文化史著作。

It gives the impression that cultural historians never repay those disciplines from which they benefited.

看完了！在这里看完的第一本书哈哈哈，其实还蛮stimulating的，感觉很面向未来，强调historians个人的创造力，让我对当代文化充满信心！