7. Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: History, Culture, and Text 1
5. Part One: Models for Cultural History
6. 1. Michel Foucault's History of Culture 25
7. 2. Crowds, Community, and Ritual in the Work of E. P. Thompson and Natalie Davis 47
8. 3. Local Knowledge, Local History: Geertz and Beyond 72
9. 4. Literature, Criticism, and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra 97
10. Part Two: New Approaches
11. 5. The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order 131
12. 6. Texts, Printing, Readings 154
13. 7. Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative 176
14. 8. Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince 205
15. Contributors 233
16. Index 235