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:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/16/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

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

Christopher Kent