Showing papers on "Cultural history published in 2008"

Cultures of Natural History

Abstract: Acknowledgments Notes on contributors Introduction: 1. The natures of cultural history Nicholas Jardine and Emma Spary Part I. Curiosity, Erudition and Utility: 2. Emblematic natural history William B. Ashworth Jr 3. The culture of gardens Andrew Cunningham 4. Courting nature Paula Findlen 5. The culture of curiosity Katie Whitaker 6. Physicians and natural history Harold J. Cook 7. Natural history as print culture Adrian Johns Part II. Virtuosity, Improvement and Sensibility: 8. Natural history in the academies Daniel Roche 9. Carl Linnaeus and his time and place Lisbet Koerner 10. Gender in natural history Londa Schiebinger 11. Political natural and bodily economics Emma Spary 12. The science of man Paul B. Wood 13. The natural history of the earth Martin Guntau 14. Naturphilosophie and the kingdoms of nature Nicholas Jardine Part III. Discipline, Discovery and Display: 15. New spaces in natural history Dorinda Outram 16. Minerals strata and fossils Martin Rudwick 17. Humboldtian science Michael Dettelbach 18. Biogeography and empire Janet Browne 19. Travelling the other way Gillian Beer 20. Ethological encounters Michael T. Bravo 21. Equipment for the field Anne Larsen 22. Artisan botany Anne Secord 23. Tastes and crazes David Allen 24. Nature for the people Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Jean-Marc Drouin 25. Natural history and the 'new' biology Lynn K. Nyhart Epilogue: 26. The crisis of nature James A. Secord.

Ghosts of War in Vietnam

Abstract: This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.

Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

Abstract: Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt’s historical sites and artifacts As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of “Pharaonism”—Egypt’s response to Europe’s Egyptomania In the process, a significant body of modern, Pharaonist poetry, sculpture, architecture, and film was created by artists and authors who looked to the ancient past for inspiration Colla draws on medieval and modern Arabic poetry, novels, and travel accounts; British and French travel writing; the history of archaeology; and the history of European and Egyptian museums and exhibits The struggle over the ownership of Pharaonic Egypt did not simply pit Egyptian nationalists against European colonial administrators Egyptian elites found arguments about the appreciation and preservation of ancient objects useful for exerting new forms of control over rural populations and for mobilizing new political parties Finally, just as the political and expressive culture of Pharaonism proved critical to the formation of new concepts of nationalist identity, it also fueled Islamist opposition to the Egyptian state

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Abstract: This book looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction relating to obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day. It looks critically at the source of our anxieties, covering issues such as childhood obesity, the production of food, media coverage of the subject, and the emergence of obesity in modern China. Written as a cultural history, the book is particularly concerned with the cultural meanings that have been attached to obesity over time and explores the implications of these meanings for wider society. The history of these debates is the history of fat in culture, from nineteenth-century opera to our global dieting obsession. Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity is a vivid and absorbing cultural guide to one of the most important topics in modern society

The Art of Being In-between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca

Abstract: In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich social and cultural history tells the story of the making of colonialism at the edge of empire through the eyes of native intermediary figures: indigenous governors clothed in Spanish silks, priests’ assistants, interpreters, economic middlemen, legal agents, landed nobility, and “Indian conquistadors.” Through political negotiation, cultural brokerage, and the exercise of violence, these fascinating intercultural figures redefined native leadership, sparked indigenous rebellions, and helped forge an ambivalent political culture that distinguished the hinterlands from the centers of Spanish empire. Through interpretation of a wide array of historical sources—including descriptions of public rituals, accounts of indigenous rebellions, idolatry trials, legal petitions, court cases, land disputes, and indigenous pictorial histories—Yannakakis weaves together an elegant narrative that illuminates political and cultural struggles over the terms of local rule. As cultural brokers, native intermediaries at times reconciled conflicting interests, and at other times positioned themselves in opposing camps over the outcome of municipal elections, the provision of goods and labor, landholding, community ritual, the meaning of indigenous “custom” in relation to Spanish law, and representations of the past. In the process, they shaped an emergent “Indian” identity in tension with other forms of indigenous identity and a political order characterized by a persistent conflict between local autonomy and colonial control. This innovative study provides fresh insight into colonialism’s disparate cultures and the making of race, ethnicity, and the colonial state and legal system in Spanish America.

History as Cultural Memory: Mnemohistory and the Construction of the Estonian Nation

Abstract: The question I want to address in this essay is a quite simple one, if not simplistic: what do Estonians remember of their past? More specifically, my intention is to analyse how the memories of di...

Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History

Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction: From Antebellum Hoyden to Millennial Girl Power The Unwritten History (and Hidden History) of Tomboyism in the United States 1. The White Tomboy Launches a Gender Backlash: E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand 2. The Tomboy Becomes a Cultural Phenomenon: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 3. The Tomboy Matures Into the New Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor 4. The Tomboy is Reinvented an the Exercise Enthusiast: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland 5. The Tomboy Becomes the All-Americanizing Girl: Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia 6. The Tomboy Shifts From Feminist to Flapper: Clara Bow in Victor Fleming's Hula 7. The Tomboy Turns Freakishly Queer and Queerly Freakish: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding 8. The Tomboy Becomes the "Odd Girl Out": Ann Bannon's Women in the Shadows 9. The Tomboy Returns to Hollywood: Tatum O'Neal in Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon Selected Bibliography Works Cited Index Photographs follow page 144

Nordic cultural policies: a critical view.

Abstract: I introduce my discussion on cultural policies in the Nordic countries with a brief summary of Jurgen Habermas’ views on different forms of rationality and communication in the modern world, as put forward in his seminal works The Theory of Communicative Action (1987 [1981]) and Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996 [1992]). Based on a previous study, Nordic Cultural Policy in Transition, I then suggest a model for analysing cultural policy, with special attention to the changes in Nordic attitudes in the period from 1960 to 2003. Finally, I discuss the above model in a critical light and attempt an assessment of its relevance in academic cultural policy research.

What Is History Now

Abstract: Introduction D.Cannadine E.H.Carr and What is History ? R.J.Evans What is Social History Now? P.Cartledge What is Intellectual History Now? A.Brett What is Imperial History Now? L.Colley What is Political History Now? S.Pedersen What is Religious History Now? O.Hufton What is Cultural History Now? M.Rubin What is Gender History Now? A.K.Harris What is History Now? F.F.Armesto

The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times

Abstract: Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, "draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before" (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World).

Whose Place, Whose History? Outdoor Environmental Education Pedagogy as "Reading" the Landscape.

Abstract: Outdoor education practice around the world occurs in diverse circumstances, environments and cultures. The application of outdoor education to specific cultural and environmental issues in particular places and communities has received little attention in research. While research in fields such as cultural geography has addressed the relationships between cultures, communities and geographical places, this is largely overlooked in outdoor education research. In this paper I draw on literature from cultural history and environmental history to explore how these disciplines might inform outdoor education research and pedagogy that addresses current cultural and environmental issues of specific communities and geographical places. With the aid of the rhizome metaphor for (re)structuring knowledge, I use examples from my practice in Australia to demonstrate how reading the landscape and the use of stories, or historical accounts, can assist outdoor educators and participants to probe and reflect on the relat...

Remembering the Future

Abstract: GEOFF ELEY IS A PROMINENT NEW-LEFT SCHOLAR Of modern German and European social history. A Crooked Line is his meditation on the relationship between his intellectual biography, political transformations, and the historiographical shift from the social history of the 1960s and 1970s to the cultural turn of the 1980s and 1990s. The book is self-consciously hybrid. Its bold braiding of personal memoir, historiographical analysis, and political critique places it on the terrain of the cultural turn, making it an artifact of the shift it charts from social to cultural history. Yet its emphasis on the political context of social and cultural history remains true to the basic tenets of social history. The hybrid character of the book encapsulates its concluding, and controversial, claim that contemporary historical practices have so combined social and cultural history that they obviate any "need to choose" between them (181). Eley's work joins a personal and intellectual memoir with an old-school Hobsbawmian mapping of historical debates across British, German, European, and South Asian fields. The heterodox nature of the work is signaled by the affective register of the titles of its chapters-"Optimism," "Disappointment," "Reflectiveness," and "Defiance." The temporal structure of the book's narrative is similarly heterodox. The work moves between the political and existential dimension of becoming a Marxist social historian in the 1960s and 1970s, to a more sweeping historical panorama of the interchange between politics and historiographical debates in postwar Britain, Germany, and the United States, to a concluding affirmative snapshot of contemporary historical practices. This remarkable compass affords a rare demonstration of the uneven and multiple times-political, generational, and existential-that underwrite critical historiographical stocktaking. The experimental form of the book suggests that the only way to render intelligible the shift from social to cultural history is to short-circuit linear narratives in favor of Bertolt Brecht's concluding injunction, voiced by Galileo, that "If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked line." It is tempting to read A Crooked Line as the reckoning of one historian-or the post-1968 generation of historians-with the shift from social to cultural history. But while that shift was made by a specific generation, its sources and consequences extend far beyond that generation. To me, a historian of modern India trained in the midand late 1990s, when cultural studies and postcolonial history were at their peak, the force of the book lay in its explicitly political rewriting of that momentous shift. Eley offers a generous and generative reading of social and cultural history as

Hemispheric American Studies

Abstract: This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas?What happens if we recognize the nation as historically evolving and contingent rather than already formed? Finally, what happens if the ""fixed"" borders of a nation are recognized not only as historically produced political constructs but also as component parts of a deeper, more multilayered series of national and indigenous histories?With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, ""Hemispheric American Studies"" seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.

The Burden of Black Religion

Abstract: In the long and tortured history of American ideas about race, religion has played a prominent role. In this book, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, is the notion-popular throughout this period-that blacks were somehow naturally religious. In the antebellum period, the religious sentiments of blacks were commonly pointed to as a signal trait of their humanity and as a potential source for their contribution to American culture. Abolitionists began linking the distinctive religious feelings of blacks to their capacity for freedom and by doing so made the first, halting steps toward multiracial democracy. Yet the very notion of a peculiar African religious sensibility masked doubts about the intellectual abilities of blacks and reflected white misgivings about the lack of spiritual and moral values in their own culture. Later, when religion was less central to the lives and thought of American cultural elites, the notion of natural religion became an obstacle to African American integration. As more and more value was placed on reason, rationality, and science, many whites pointed to blacks' natural religiosity as a sign of their inferiority and used that argument to justify their subordination. At the same time, many social scientists-both black and white-sought to debunk the idea of innate religiosity to show that blacks were in fact fully capable of assimilation into white American culture. Evans shows how interpretations of black religion played a crucial role in shaping broader views of African Americans and had real consequences in their lives. In the process, he offers an intellectual and cultural history of race in a crucial period of American history.

The History of Everyday Life: A Second Chapter*

Abstract: By the mid-1990s, as cultural history won the field from social history, Alltagsgeschichte—the history of everyday life that emerged in 1980s West Germany— seemed a minor casualty along the way. The doyen of German social historians, Hans Ulrich Wehler, offered an unsentimental obituary: “It has been clear for some time that the ‘history of everyday life’ (Alltagsgeschichte) has been a failure, theoretically speaking. All of the smart people have moved on to the New Cultural History. This development also will take its course in America, where currently students of those historians who once declared themselves enthusiastically for the history of everyday life are fighting a rearguard battle.”1 The reports of Alltagsgeschichte’s death, however, have been greatly exaggerated. The history of everyday life played an important role in shaping the future of German historiography in North America. In this article, we wish to suggest several fruitful ways in which future scholarship may use Alltagsgeschichte, particularly in the transplanted form that has taken root on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean, to integrate social and cultural history into what might be called a self-critical history of the present.2 Alltagsgeschichte grew in 1970s West Germany from decidedly international roots, not least from E. P. Thompson’s efforts to “rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the ‘obsolete’ hand-loom weaver, the ‘utopian’ artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity.”3 Like its politically charged cousins in Britain, Alltagsgeschichte

Boxing: A Cultural History

Abstract: Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 B.C. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all. In her encyclopaedic investigation of the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Looking afresh at everything from neo-classical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media, and sheds new light on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens. This all-encompassing study tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.

Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature

Abstract: This book reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The notion of addiction has always conjured first-person stories, often beginning with an insidious seduction, followed by compulsion and despair, culminating in recovery and tentative hope for the future. We are all familiar with this form of individual life narrative, Susan Zieger observes, but we know far less about its history. 'Addict' was not an available identity until the end of the nineteenth century, when a modernizing medical establishment and burgeoning culture of consumption updated the figure of the sinful drunkard popularized by the temperance movement.In "Inventing the Addict", Zieger tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of earlier figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. Drawing on a broad range of literary and cultural material, including canonical novels such as "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and "Dracula", she traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors: exile, self-enslavement, disease, and vampirism. She shows how addiction took on multiple meanings beyond its common association with intoxication or specific habit-forming substances - it was an abiding desire akin to both sexual attraction and commodity fetishism, a disease that strangely failed to meet the requirements of pathology, and the citizen's ironic refusal to fulfill the promise of freedom.Nor was addiction an ideologically neutral idea. As Zieger demonstrates, it took form over time through specific, shifting intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, reflecting the role of social power in the construction of meaning.

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis

Abstract: Introduction: Vocabularies of Culture PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS Anthropology and Culture - Eric Gable & Richard Handler Cultural Geography: An Account - Kay Anderson Psychology and Cultural Analysis - Valerie Walkerdine & Lisa Blackman Sociology and Culture - Tony Bennett Cultural History - Peter Burke Literary Studies - James F. English Culture and Music - Tia DeNora Visual Analysis - Mieke Bal Film Studies - Tom Gunning Broadcasting - Toby Miller Cultural Studies - Ien Ang Feminism and Culture: theoretical perspectives - Griselda Pollock Material Culture - Daniel Miller Culture: Science Studies, and Technoscience - Andrew Pickering PART TWO: CURRENT ISSUES Culture and Nation - David McCrone Culture and Modernities - Joel S. Kahn Globalization and Cultural Flows/Networks - Diana Crane Colonialism and Culture - Christopher Pinney Indigenous Culture: The Politics of Vulnerability and Survival - Tim Rowse Cultural Property - John Frow Culture and Economy - Timothy Mitchell Culture, Class and Classification - Mike Savage Analysing Multiculturalism Today - Ghassan Hage Culture and Identity - Simon Clarke Culture, Sex and Sexualities - Elspeth Probyn & Gilbert Caluya Cultural and Creative Industries - David Hesmondhalgh Cultural Technologies - Celia Lury Cyberculture and New Media - Tiziana Terranova PART THREE: RESEARCH THEORY AND PRACTICE Ethnography - Johannes Fabian & Vincent de Rooij Visual Anthropologies - Sarah Pink Thinking by Numbers: Cultural Analysis and the Use of Data - Justin Lewis Discourse Analysis - Lilie Chouliaraki Cultural Activism - Pepi Leistyna

Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

Abstract: Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present - the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.In the essays collected in "Local Transcendence", Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism - including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory - and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? "Local Transcendence" includes one previously unpublished essay and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.

The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture

Abstract: From Shakespeare's 'green-eyed monster' to the 'green thought in a green shade' in Andrew Marvell's "The Garden," the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among other things, green was the most common color of household goods, the recommended wall color against which to view paintings, the hue that was supposed to appear in alchemical processes at the moment base metal turned to gold, and the color most frequently associated with human passions of all sorts. A unique cultural history, "The Key of Green" considers the significance of the color in the literature, visual arts, and popular culture of early modern England.Contending that color is a matter of both sensation and emotion, Bruce R. Smith examines Renaissance material culture - including tapestries, clothing, and stonework, among others - as well as music, theater, philosophy, and nature through the lens of sense perception and aesthetic pleasure. At the same time, Smith offers a highly sophisticated meditation on the nature of consciousness, perception, and emotion that will resonate with students and scholars of the early modern period and beyond. Like the key to a map, "The Key of Green" provides a guide for looking, listening, reading, and thinking that restores the aesthetic considerations to criticism that have been missing for too long.

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey

Abstract: Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one of the most popular texts of all time, crossing East-West divides and inspiring poets and fimmakers wordwide. But why, over three thousand years, has the Odyssey's appeal proved so remarkably resilient and longlasting? Edith Hall explains the enduring fascination of Homer's epic in terms of its extraordinary susceptibility to adaptation.Not only has the story reflected a myriad of different agendas, but - from the tragedies of classical Athens to modern detective fiction, film, travelogue and opera - it has seemed perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic forms. Cultural texts as diverse as Joyce's "Ulysses", Suzanne Vega's "Calypso", Monteverdi's "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria", the Coen Brothers' "O Brother Where Art Thou?" , Daniel Vigne's "Le Retour de Martin Guerre" and Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain" all show that Odysseus is truly a versatile hero. His travels across the wine-dark Aegean are journeys not just into the mind of one of the most brilliantly creative of all the ancient Greek writers. They are as much a voyage beyond the limits of a narrative which can plausibly lay claim to being the quintessential global phenomenon.

Machine-Age Comedy

Abstract: In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.

Desire: A History of European Sexuality

Abstract: A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire – desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary – through the major turning points of European history. Chronological in structure, and wide ranging in scope, Desire addresses such topics as sex in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, sexual contact and culture clash in Spain and colonial Mesoamerica, new attitudes toward sexuality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and sex in Bolshevik Russia and Nazi Germany. The book introduces the concept of "twilight moments" to describe activities seen as shameful or dishonorable, but which were tolerated when concealed by shadows, and integrates the history of heterosexuality with same-sex desire, as well as exploring the emotions of love and lust as well as the politics of sex and personal experiences. This new edition has been updated to include a new chapter on sex and imperialism and expanded discussions of Islam and trans issues. Drawing on a rich array of sources, including poetry, novels, pornography, and film, as well as court records, autobiographies, and personal letters, and written in a lively, engaging style, Desire remains an essential resource for scholars and students of the history of European sexuality, as well as women’s and gender history, social and cultural history and LGBTQ history.

The cultural turn in U.S. history : past, present, and future

Abstract: A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, "The Cultural Turn in U.S. History" takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpublished essays by a distinguished roster of contributors who illuminate the discipline's rich potential by plumbing topics that range from nineteenth-century anxieties about greenback dollars to confidence games in 1920s Harlem, from Shirley Temple's career to the story of a Chicano community in San Diego that created a public park under a local freeway.Featuring an equally wide-ranging selection of pieces that meditate on the future of the field, the final section explores such subjects as the different strains of cultural history, its relationships with arenas from mass entertainment to public policy, and the ways it has been shaped by catastrophe. Taken together, these essays represent a watershed moment in the life of a discipline, harnessing its vitality to offer a glimpse of the shape it will take in years to come.

Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India

Abstract: List of IllustrationsPreface: The Shape of the BookAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Namdev, Bhakti, Public, and MemoryPart 1. Practices of Memory 1. A Sant Between Memory and History2. Public Performance and Corporate Authorship3. Orality and Literacy/Performance and PermanencePart 2. Publics of Memory 4. Namdev and the Namas: Anamnetic Authorship from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries5. Memories of Suffering in the Eighteenth Century6. A Sant for the Nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries7. The Idea of Namdev in Two Films in the Twentieth CenturyConclusionNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

The road to independence? : Scotland since the sixties

Abstract: Is the 'United' Kingdom really as united as its name might suggest? For many people in the UK, increasing nationalism in Scotland raises serious questions about what Britain is, and where its future lies. In "The Road to Independence?", Murray Pittock not only gives an account of modern Scottish nationalism, but also explains what Scotland's role in Britain has been historically, and why it has changed radically in the last fifty years, with the debate about independence coming to the fore. The author relates the economic, social and cultural history of Scotland, the rise of modern Scottish nationalism and the reasons for it, the recent history and differing character of Scotland's cities and cultural industries, the impact of multiculturalism on Scottish as distinct from British society, and the changes wrought by devolution, including the reasons for the election of Scotland's first-ever nationalist government in 2007. "The Road to Independence?" is the only history of Scotland available with a truly contemporary focus. In dealing with everything from modern painting to political structures it is remarkably comprehensive; in explaining the rise of modern nationalism it is of fundamental importance to policymakers and the wider public. It will be of interest to students of politics, history, law and social science, and to all who want to understand the rapidly changing face of Britain.

A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis

Abstract: Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It includes full treatment of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and many other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and modern comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and modern war studies. This book is essential reading for anyone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon's Anabasis.