Cultures in Motion
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Cultures in Motion
By (Author) Daniel T. Rodgers
Edited by Bhavani Raman
Edited by Helmut Reimitz
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th July 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
Social and ethical issues
303.48209
Physical Properties
Paperback
384
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Description
In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between ear
Reviews
"Cultures in Motion represents first-rate scholarship and opens up a critical new space for historiography. Exploring the movement of things, ideas, and other cultural forms, the bookand the introduction in particulargives an independent existence and importance to such work, and raises original questions about historical change and intercultural understandings."Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations
"This book provides a new approach to finding a language to describe the new realities that emerge from the interactions of geographically or temporally different cultural practices, material objects, and languages, as they meet in a given, shared space. The essays are engaging in subject matter and persuasively written, and the introduction is superb."Barbara Metcalf, professor of history emerita, University of California, Davis
"This successful collection of essays focuses on the inherent instability of cultural spheres and the increasing recognition that traditional models of comparative, global, and transcultural/transnational investigation do not do justice to the complexities of human history. Cultures in Motion defines the contours of a new way of thinking and researching cultural history."Patrick J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study
Author Bio
Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. Bhavani Raman is an associate professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Helmut Reimitz is a professor in the Department of History at Princeton University.
