Cultural History in France

Evelyne Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary Cultural History at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB-Lyon University).Anaïs Fléchet is Associate Professor of History at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.Pascale Goetschel is Professor of Social and Political History of Culture at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.Laurent Martin is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle.Pascal Ory is Professor Emeritus of History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

• Part I: Definitions and Frontiers 1. Introduction to Part I 2. Cultural History: A Domain, a Perspective, and an Interface 3. What Is Mediology? 4. Literary History/Cultural History: Material for a Dialogue 5. The Cultural Dimension of Social History 6. The History of Knowledge: Social or Cultural History? 7. Borders (and Their Porosity) Between Cultural History and Media History 8. Myths and Truths of French Legal Culture, 19th-20th Centuries 9. Debate on the Sociology of Culture Part II: Subjects 10. Introduction to Part II 11. Inner Senses and Their Old Markers 12. Towards a History of Colors: Possibilities and Limits 13. For a History of the Sensitivity to the Weather 14. From the Reading of 18th-Century Police Archives to the Construction of Objects of Historical Study 15. History: The Masculine Hypothesis 16. A Romantic House: George Sand’s Nohant 17. Television and Mass Culture 18. Cultural History and Music 19. A Contribution to a Historical Approach to the Audiovisual Landscapes of Radio and Television 20. "Popular Culture", "Mass Culture": A Definition or a Prerequisite? Part III: Memory and History 21. Introduction to Part III 22. Italian Sites of Memory 23. Historiographical Conflicts and Memory-Based Heritage: On the Luoghi della memoria and L’Italie par elle-même, Edited by Mario Isnenghi 24. Sites of Memory, Erinnerungsorte 25. "A Cry of Horror from the Abyss": Passers-On of the Indescribable: Lemkin, Fry, Karski, 1941-1944 26. Israeli National Memory: Formation, Variations, and Objections Part IV: Perspectives and Transfers 27. Introduction to Part IV 28: Can We Write a European History of Culture in the Contemporary Period? 29. Disciplinary Smuggling 30. The Paris-London Line of Cultural Studies: A One-Way Track? 31. British Perspectives on French Cultural History 32. Is There History Under Colonial Culture? 33. Colonial History Today: A Cultural History? 34. Appraisal and Ideas for a Global Cultural History 35. Some Remarks on the Teaching of Cultural History in Eastern European Universities 36. Cultural History Facing the "Transnational Turn" 37. General Conclusion

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