What is a cultural story?

One of the leading modern historians Peter Burk offers a significantly updated guide to the past, a real and future cultural history, not only in the English-speaking world, but also in continental Europe, Asia, South America.
Burk begins with the consideration of the classic stage of cultural history associated with the names of Jacob Burkhardt and Johan Heising, and the Marxist reaction to him from Frederick Antala to Edward Thompson. Further, it offers cartography directions of cultural history at a later time, paying attention to predominantly research activity of today"s generation. Immersing the culture history into its own cultural context, Burke emphasizes the relationship between new approaches to the historical thought (and its textual expression) and the development of feminism, postcolonial research and everyday discourse, in which the idea of ​​culture plays an increasingly important role. They also have an overview of the latest innovations in this research field and denoted possible directions of cultural history in the XXI century.
The book is addressed to all interested in history, anthropology, cultural studies and literature