The Cultural History Reader (Routledge Readers in History). Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Cultural History Reader (Routledge Readers in History)

The Cultural History Reader is the very first collection of the distinctive contributions made by cultural historians across the spectrum of historiographical methods and offers a unique view of the insights to be gained from analyses of how cultural factors have shaped people's experience of the world and guided their actions.

Featuring eleven thematic sections examining everything from childhood to technology; war to popular culture, this book bridges disparate themes and presents detailed analyses on a variety of cultural responses to history. A key title for any student of history.

Peter McCaffery taught Sociology and Cultural History in the University of Aberdeen. His publications include Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth, edited with Edwin van Teijlingen, George Lowis and Maureen Porter (2000). He is interested in problems of interdisciplinary collaboration, both in research and in professional practice

Ben Marsden is Director of the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. He has been involved in the teaching of cultural history, especially of science and technology, since 1992. His books include Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (2002), Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain with Crosbie Smith (2005), and Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 edited with Ralph O'Connor and Hazel Hutchison (2013).