Cultural history in Europe: institutions - themes - perspectives

»Wer sich [für] Fachgeschichte, Stand der Forschung und der Institutionalisierung des Forschungsfeldes Kulturgeschichte in Europa interessiert, der ist mit diesem Band gut bedient.« Silke Göttsch-Elten, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 108/II (2012) Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Freimaurerforschung, 16/32 (2014), Astrid von Schlachta

What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future? These and other questions are raised by European scholars in the discussion of Institutions, Themes and Perspectives of Cultural History in this volume. It provides a profound overview of contemporary developments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain.

1 Editorial 2 CONTENTS 5 Welcome Address 7 Traditions, Topics and Trends in Cultural History in Europe-an Introduction 11 From Ethnology and Folklore Studies to Cultural History in Scandinavia 31 Traditions of Cultural History in Finland, 1900-2000 45 The Practice of Cultural History in Britain 63 The Cultural History MA at the University of Aberdeen, 1986-2011: a personal reflection 79 Perspectives of the Cultural History in Latvia: The 20th century and beyond 91 A would-be science? 125 Achievements and Contradictions in the Writing and Teaching of Cultural History in Hungary 141 Beyond the Alpine Myth, Across the Linguistic Ditch 157 What's new about the New Cultural History? 171 We've only just begun 191 Cultural History in Spain 211 Cultural History in Italy 239 Contributors 257