Cultural turn
The cultural turn can be seen to encompass a variety of different shifts in the practice of history. Rather than political or economic histories based on straightforward readings of state papers and economic data, meaning is instead looked for in a culture's language (hence the connection to the linguistic turn) and systems of representation. Thus the same materials may be used, but read against the grain, looking for contested meanings and omissions. In addition, histories may no longer be written as supposedly objective narratives, but may contain different rhetorical strategies and voices.
- Historians:
- Burke, Ulick Peter
Davis, Natalie Zemon
Joyce, Patrick - Themes:
- Cultural history
Historiography
Linguistic turn
Philosophy of history
Social history
Women's history
