What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it.
Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere.
Burke begins by discussing the 'classic' phase of cultural history, associated with.