Notta Libb wrote:
> 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]
> wrote in message
> news:43fa78cf$0$31355$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>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.
>
>
>
Hello Notta,
Sounds like we could have, and perhaps should have, a good discussion
about this off the news group. It looks like I'm at least partly a
cultural historian then. There are some personalities in the story I've
been assembling, but there are obvious social trends, settlement,
followed by small-scale farming, followed by urbanisation, etc, you get
the picture.
I don't have enough information for biographical or psychological, the
above is at least partly sociological, and I'm not a Marxist. I'll be
happy to discuss this further as I need all the help I can get as well.
Regards,
Ray.
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