Summary
The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745646978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745646972 |
| Author: | Peter Burke |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 154g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 124mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
“Would work extremely well in world or European history courses at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level.”
European History Quarterly
”[K]nowledgeable and informative.”
Times Literary Supplement
“The book’s easy and discursive style makes it accessible to the widest readership without losing out on complexity and intellectual rigour.”
Sociology
“Burke shows how [questions of hybridity] raise issues that are older, broader and closer to our lives than we might think.”
Times of Malta
Robert J.C. Young, New York University
“An inspiring and illuminating survey of this highly topical and important field. Burke wears his outstanding erudition very lightly, and seeks to inform and enlighten his readers rather than to impress or browbeat them. He manages to encompass, in this brief survey, a wealth of historical roots and ramifications both within and outside Europe, and maintain analytical clarity at all times. Burke’s rigorous, but never rigid, clarity of thought is always flexibly attuned to the complexities of historical experience.”
J. Th. Leerssen, University of Amsterdam
About The Author
Peter Burke
Peter Burke, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, Cambridge University
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