New Directions in Social and Cultural History

Sasha Handley is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK.Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.Lucy Noakes is Rab Butler Chair of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsForeword, Frank Mort (University of Manchester, UK)Preface, Pamela Cox (University of Essex, UK)Introduction: Towards New Social and Cultural Histories, Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University, UK), Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton, UK) and Sasha Handley (University of Manchester, UK)Part I: Histories of the Human1. Subjectivity, the Self and Historical Practice, Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester, UK)2. The History of Emotions, Rob Boddice (Max Planck Institute, Germany)3. The Body and the Senses, Judith Allen (Indiana University, USA)Part II: The Material Turn4. A Return to Materialism? Putting Social History Back into Place, Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire, UK)5. Markets and Cultures, Donna Loftus (Open University, UK)6. Visual and Material Cultures, Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University, USA)7. Public Histories, Paul Ashton (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Meg Foster (University of New South Wales, Australia)Part III: Challenges and Provocations8. Animal Human Histories, Hilda Kean (University of Greenwich and University College London, UK)9. New Directions in Transnational History: Thinking and Living Transnationally, Durbha Ghosh (Cornell University, USA)10. Environmental History, John Morgan (University of Manchester, UK)11. Spatial Histories, Nicola Whyte (University of Exeter, UK)Afterword: Digital History, Seth Denbo (American Historical Association, USA)Index

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