Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: History, Culture, and Text
LYNN HUNT
Part One: Models for Cultural History
1. Michel Foucault's History of Culture
PATRICIA o'BRIEN
2. Crowds, Community, and Ritual in the Work of
E. P. Thompson and Natalie Davis
SUZANNE DESAN
3· Local Knowledge, Local History: Geertz and Beyond
ALETTA BIERSACK
4· Literature, Criticism, and Historical Imagination:
The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and
Dominick LaCapra
LLOYD S. KRAMER
Part Two: New Approaches
5· The American Parade: Representations of the
Nineteenth-Century Social Order
MARY RYAN
6. Texts, Printing, Readings
ROGER CHARTIER
Contents
7· Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative
THOMAS W. LAQUEUR
8. Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince
RANDOLPH STARN
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Lynn Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.