Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges

by Mark Poster

Overview

Poster charts the move from social history to new practices of cultural history that are drawing strength from poststructuralist interpretive strategies and raising issues found in feminist and postcolonial discourse. He provides close readings of Lawrence Stone; François Furet, Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231108836
Publisher:	Perseus (for Columbia University Press)
Publication date:	07/09/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.47(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Poster is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments		ix
Introduction		3	(11)
Lawrence Stone's Family History		14	(24)
Textual Agents: History at "the End of History"		38	(34)
Furet and the Deconstruction of 1789		72	(36)
Michel de Certeau and the History of Consumerism		108	(26)
The Future According to Foucault: The Archeology of Knowledge and Intellectual History		134	(19)
In Place of a Conclusion: History as Knowledge		153	(6)
Notes		159	(8)
Index		167

Editorial Reviews

Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly.

Christopher Kent