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.
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly. -- Christopher Kent
Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly. -- Review
Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly. -- Review
About the Author
Mark Poster is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Okay Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cultural History and Postmodernity (Paperback)
Poster's work is basically about how Foucault and other poststructuralists are great in understanding phenomena of the "past." Unfortunately, the crux of his argument doesn't appear until the final chapters where he reads (and misreads) de Certeau and Foucault. It's good that he tries to cross disciplinary boundaries, but his reading and articulation of "cultural history" is just too narrow.
6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Clueless Francophile Jargon,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cultural History and Postmodernity (Paperback)
Yet another tiresome volume devoted to post-everything pseudo-disciplines. Poster has almost nothing original to say, but that doesn't stop him. Read on, if you must, to be regailed yet again with clueless francophile jargon about our postmodern, post-colonial, post-structurlist, post-disciplinary society and you just may go postal.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Since the 1960s the discipline of history has grudgingly made room for the new genre of "social history." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French Revolution, The Archeology of Knowledge, Lawrence Stone, The Birth of Consumer Society, United States, Lynn Hunt, Michel Foucault, Fernand Braudel New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Since the 1960s the discipline of history has grudgingly made room for the new genre of "social history." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
French Revolution, The Archeology of Knowledge, Lawrence Stone, The Birth of Consumer Society, United States, Lynn Hunt, Michel Foucault, Fernand Braudel New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 72
books:
See all 72 books this book cites
30
books
cite this book:
See all 30 books citing this book
- The French Revolution: 1770-1814 (History of France) by Francois Furet on 17 pages
- Interpreting the French Revolution by François Furet on 6 pages
- The French Revolution (Questions and Analysis in History) by Jocelyn Hunt on 4 pages
- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau on 4 pages
- Michel Foucault the Will to Truth (Social Science Paperbacks) by Sheridan on 4 pages
See all 72 books this book cites
- Why History? by Keith Jenkins on page 91, and Back Matter
- The Other Mirror by Miguel Angel Centeno on page 325, and page 326
- If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments by Jeffrey Di Leo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace by David B. Downing on page 210, and Back Matter
- Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age by Gary R. Edgerton on page 59, and page 62
See all 30 books citing this book
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
