The 'Cultural Turn' - Paperback

by Lawrence B. Glickman (Author)

Historian Lawrence B. Glickman examines the cultural turn, which focuses on new sub-fields, such as disability history, visual studies, and identity, to show how cultural history has become the dominant historiographical method of the past 20 years.

Author Biography

Lawrence B. Glickman is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. He co-edited, with James W. Cook and Michael O'Malley, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future (2008). He is the author, most recently, of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (2009).