Varieties of Cultural History
- ISBN-10
- 0801484928
- ISBN-13
- 9780801484926
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Peter Burke
Description
Explains cultural history, demonstrating the relationship between historians' and social anthropologists' search for collective representations, and describes the myriad ways in which the discipline has branched out.
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