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Cultural History and Postmodernity 0 Edition
Author(s): Mark Poster (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: April 15, 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231108834
- ISBN-13: 9780231108836
Book Description
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.
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, "Canadian Journal of History"
"Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly." -- Christopher Kent, Canadian Journal of History
"Perhaps Poster's greatest merit, and no small merit it is in such company, is that he writes very clearly." -- Christopher Kent, "Canadian Journal of History"
About the Author
Mark Poster is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
