Hello Ray,
From my understanding, cultural history is a type of historiographical
approach. Compared to other historical approaches: biographical,
psychological, sociological, Marxism, political, economic, military, and
ethnographic history.
Each approach is suppose to have a general theory behind it. For example,
what biographical historians think drive history is the big man theory or
that events take place because of individual agency.
So what I'm trying to figure out is, what do so-called cultural historians
think drives history.
Regards,
NL
"ray" <ferret57@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Notta Libb wrote:
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> Does anyone know what the theory behind Cultural History is?
>>
>> Basically, what do cultural historians think drives history?
>>
>> For instance, biographical historians believe in individual agency and
>> psychological historians believe in unconscious motivations.
>>
>> I'm writing an essay comparing different methods/theories of history,
>> such as: biographical, psychological, sociological, Marxism, and
cultural
>> history.
>>
>> And I'm having trouble figuring out cultural history.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> NL
> Define `Cultural History'. I'm a local historian, and a lot of my work
is
> concerned with the culture the events of interest to me took place in,
> which of course was different to what it is today.
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