Cultural history

Cultural history (from the term Kulturgeschichte), at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of  and  to look at  traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. Cultural history involves the records and descriptions of past, s, and s of a group of. Cultural history encompasses the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future pertaining to a.

Cultural history, as a, records and interprets past events involving human beings through the , , and  of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. helped found cultural history as a discipline. Cultural history studies and interprets the record of by denoting the various distinctive ways of living built up by a group of people under consideration. Cultural history involves the aggregate of past cultural activity, such as ceremony, class in practices, and the interaction with locales.

Description
Cultural history overlaps in its approaches with the French movements of (Philippe Poirrier, 2004) and the so-called, and in the U.S. it is closely associated with the field of. As originally conceived and practiced by 19th Century Swiss historian with regard to the, cultural history was oriented to the study of a particular historical period in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the economic basis underpinning society, and the social institutions of its daily life as well.

Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as:, , and s; traditions of , , and other verbal forms; cultural evolutions in human relations (ideas, sciences, arts, techniques); and cultural expressions of social movements such as. Also examines main historical concepts as, , , , , , , and new historical methods as narration of body. Many studies consider adaptations of traditional culture to (tv, radio, newspapers, magazines, posters, etc.), from  to  and, now, to the  (culture of ). Its modern approaches come from, , school,  and new cultural history.

Common theoretical s for recent cultural history have included: 's formulation of the in The Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere; 's notion of  (expounded in, for example, The Interpretation of Cultures); and the idea of  as a cultural-historical category, as discussed in 's How Societies Remember''.

A Vague Delineation
An area where new-style cultural history is often pointed to as being almost a is the  history of the, dated somewhere since 's massively influential 1978 essay Interpreting the French Revolution''. The 'revisionist interpretation' is often characterised as replacing the allegedly dominant, allegedly, 'social interpretation' which say the causes of the Revolution in class dynamics. The revisionist approach has tended to put more emphasis on '', and through this the cultural historians have come! Reading ideas of political culture through Habermas' conception of the public sphere, historians of the Revolution in the past few decades have looked at the role and position of cultural themes such as, , and in the context of pre-revolutionary French political culture.
 * Historiography and the French Revolution

Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are, , , , Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf and. Of course, these scholars all pursure fairly diverse interests, and perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on the paradigmatic nature of the new history of the French Revolution. Colin Jones, for example, is no stranger to cultural history,, or Marxism, and has persistently argued that the Marxist interpretation is not dead, but can be revivified; after all, Habermas' logic was heavily indebted to a Marxist understanding. Meanwhile, Rebecca Spang has also recently argued that for all its emphasis on difference and newness, the 'revisionist' approach retains the idea of the French Revolution as a watershed in the history of (so-called), and that the problematic notion of 'modernity' has itself attracted scant attention.

Cultural studies
 is an academic discipline popular among a diverse group of scholars. It combines, , , , , , , , , and / to study  phenomena in various societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of, , , , and/or. The term was coined by in 1964 when he founded the Birmingham. It has since become strongly associated with, who succeeded Hoggart as Director.