New Directions in Social and Cultural History

by Noakes, Lucy; McWilliam, Rohan; Wood, Andrew; Noakes, Lucy; McWilliam, Rohan; Handley, Sasha

• ISBN13: 9781472580818
• ISBN10: 1472580818
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-10-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history. Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the current and future state of the field.

The book is divided into three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the collection provides an introduction to the key and recent developments in its specialist field, with their authors then moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning field which will be important reading for all students and scholars of social and cultural history and historiography.

Author Biography

Sasha Handley is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester, UK.

Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Lucy Noakes is a Reader in Modern British History at the University of Brighton, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton, UK and Sasha Handley, University of Manchester, UK
Foreword - Frank Mort, University of Manchester, UK
Part One: Histories of the Human
1. Subjectivity and the Self - Penny Summerfield, University of Manchester, UK
2. The Emotions in History - Rob Boddice, Max Planck Institute, Germany
3. The Body and the Senses - Judith Allen, Indiana University, USA
Part Two: The Material World
4. Markets and Cultures - Donna Loftus, Open University, UK
5. The Return to Materialism - Katrina Navickas, University of Hertfordshire, UK
6. Visual and Material Cultures - Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University, USA
Part Three: Challenges and Provocations
7. Transnational Histories - Durbha Ghosh, Cornell University, USA
8. Environmental Histories - John Morgan, University of Manchester, UK
9. Animal-Human Histories - Hilda Kean, University of Greenwich and University College London, UK
10. Spatial Histories - Nicola Whyte, University of Exeter, UK
11. Public Histories - Paul Ashton, University of Technology, AUS and Meg Foster, University of New South Wales, AUS
Afterword: Digital Histories - Seth Denbo, American Historical Association, USA
Index