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
2. Cultural
History: A Domain, a Perspective, and an Interface
3. What Is Mediology?
4.
Literary History/Cultural History: Material for a Dialogue
5. The Cultural
Dimension of Social History
6. The History of Knowledge: Social or Cultural
History?
7. Borders (and Their Porosity) Between Cultural History and Media
History
8. Myths and Truths of French Legal Culture, 19th-20th Centuries
9.
Debate on the Sociology of Culture Part II: Subjects
10. Introduction to Part
II
11. Inner Senses and Their Old Markers
12. Towards a History of Colors:
Possibilities and Limits
13. For a History of the Sensitivity to the Weather
14. From the Reading of 18th-Century Police Archives to the Construction of
Objects of Historical Study
15. History: The Masculine Hypothesis
16. A
Romantic House: George Sands Nohant
17. Television and Mass Culture
18.
Cultural History and Music
19. A Contribution to a Historical Approach to the
Audiovisual Landscapes of Radio and Television
20. "Popular Culture", "Mass
Culture": A Definition or a Prerequisite? Part III: Memory and History
21.
Introduction to Part III
22. Italian Sites of Memory
23. Historiographical
Conflicts and Memory-Based Heritage: On the Luoghi della memoria and LItalie
par elle-mźme, Edited by Mario Isnenghi
24. Sites of Memory, Erinnerungsorte
25. "A Cry of Horror from the Abyss": Passers-On of the Indescribable:
Lemkin, Fry, Karski, 1941-1944
26. Israeli National Memory: Formation,
Variations, and Objections Part IV: Perspectives and Transfers
27.
Introduction to Part IV 28: Can We Write a European History of Culture in the
Contemporary Period?
29. Disciplinary Smuggling
30. The Paris-London Line of
Cultural Studies: A One-Way Track?
31. British Perspectives on French
Cultural History
32. Is There History Under Colonial Culture?
33. Colonial
History Today: A Cultural History?
34. Appraisal and Ideas for a Global
Cultural History
35. Some Remarks on the Teaching of Cultural History in
Eastern European Universities
36. Cultural History Facing the "Transnational
Turn"
37. General Conclusion
Evelyne Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Cultural History at École nationale supérieure des sciences de linformation et des bibliothčques (ENSSIB-Lyon University).
Anaļs 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.