Cultural History and Postmodernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges

Poster charts the move from social history to new practices of cultural history that are drawing strength from poststructuralist interpretive strategies and raising issues found in feminist and postcolonial discourse. He provides close readings of Lawrence Stone; Fran ois Furet, Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault.

Mark Poster is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.