| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
Lawrence Stone's family history -- Textual agents: history at "the end of history" -- Furet and the deconstruction of 1789 -- Michel de Certeau and the history of consumerism -- The future according to Foucault: The Archeology of knowledge and intellectual history -- In place of a conclusion: history as knowledge |
| Summary |
In a series of incisive readings of signature historical works, Mark 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 postcolonialist discourse. In the process, he sets forth an outline for a postmodern historiography that can negotiate the contested terrain between the ambiguities of discourse and the pull of the "real." As Poster provides close readings of leading historians and theorists such as Lawrence Stone, Francois Furet, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault, key themes animate his work: the often irreducible difference between past and present; the relationship of writing and representation to power and domination; the dissolving distinctions between high and low culture, production and consumption, and reality and fiction; and, most important, a new perspective on human agency and the construction of political subjects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Historiography.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism.
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Structuralism (Literary analysis)
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Historiography
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historiography.
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Historiography
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History -- Philosophy
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Postmodernism
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Structuralism (Literary analysis)
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Kulturgeschichte Fach
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Postmoderne
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Kulturgeschichte.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
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Postmodernisme.
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History - General.
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History & Archaeology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96048854 |
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