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Cultural History in France Local Debates, Global Perspectives
This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies, media studies, and gender studies – to elaborate a "social history of representations." Historians, philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and methodological proposals. Definitions, objects and actors, memories and cultural transfers: this book depicts the major questions that underlie the historical debate at the beginning of the 21st century.
Part I: Definitions and Frontiers
1. Introduction to Part I
Loïc Vadelorge
2. Cultural History: A Domain, a Perspective, and an Interface
Jean-François Sirinelli
3. What Is Mediology?
Régis Debray
4. Literary History/Cultural History: Material for a Dialogue
Paul Aron
5. The Cultural Dimension of Social History
Christian Chevandier
6. The History of Knowledge: Social or Cultural History?
Peter Burke
7. Borders (and Their Porosity) Between Cultural History and Media History
Anne-Claude Ambroise Rendu
8. Myths and Truths of French Legal Culture, 19th-20th Centuries
Jean-Louis Halpérin
9. Debate on the Sociology of Culture
Laurent Martin, with Olivier Donnat, Laurent Jeanpierre, and Éric Maigret
Part II: Subjects
10. Introduction to Part II
Sylvain Venayre
11. Inner Senses and Their Old Markers
Georges Vigarello
12. Towards a History of Colors: Possibilities and Limits
Michel Pastoureau
13. For a History of the Sensitivity to the Weather
Alain Corbin
14. From the Reading of 18th-Century Police Archives to the Construction of Objects of Historical Study
Arlette Farge
15. History: The Masculine Hypothesis
André Rauch
16. A Romantic House: George Sand’s Nohant
Michelle Perrot
17. Television and Mass Culture
Evelyne Cohen
18. Cultural History and Music
Anaïs Fléchet
19. A Contribution to a Historical Approach to the Audiovisual Landscapes of Radio and Television
Pascale Gœtschel
20. "Popular Culture", "Mass Culture": A Definition or a Prerequisite?
Pascal Ory
Part III: Memory and History
21. Introduction to Part III
Laurent Martin
22. Italian Sites of Memory
Mario Isnenghi
23. Historiographical Conflicts and Memory-Based Heritage: On the Luoghi della memoria and L’Italie par elle-même, Edited by Mario Isnenghi
Manuela Martini
24. Sites of Memory, Erinnerungsorte
Étienne François
25. "A Cry of Horror from the Abyss": Passers-On of the Indescribable: Lemkin, Fry, Karski, 1941-1944
Annette Becker
26. Israeli National Memory: Formation, Variations, and Objections
Avner Ben-Amos
Part IV: Perspectives and Transfers
27. Introduction to Part IV
Laurent Martin
28: Can We Write a European History of Culture in the Contemporary Period?
Christophe Charle
29. Disciplinary Smuggling
Denis Saint-Jacques
30. The Paris-London Line of Cultural Studies: A One-Way Track?
Érik Neveu
31. British Perspectives on French Cultural History
Michael Kelly
32. Is There History Under Colonial Culture?
Emmanuelle Sibeud
33. Colonial History Today: A Cultural History?
Isabelle Surun
34. Appraisal and Ideas for a Global Cultural History
Chloé Maurel
35. Some Remarks on the Teaching of Cultural History in Eastern European Universities
Svetla Moussakova
36. Cultural History Facing the "Transnational Turn"
Ludovic Tournès
37. General Conclusion
Jean-Yves Mollier
Annex: About ADHC
Evelyne Cohen
Biography
Evelyne Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Cultural History at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB-Lyon University).
Anaïs Fléchet is Associate Professor of History at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Pascale Goetschel is Professor of Social and Political History of Culture at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Laurent Martin is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle.
Pascal Ory is Professor Emeritus of History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
