Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• PERL-ROSENTHAL, NATHAN

Titel

Comment: Generational Turns

Ist Teil von

• The American historical review, 2012-06, Vol.117 (3), p.804-813

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Positioning himself within a generational cohort that's just now coming of professional age, Perl-Rosenthal notes that a generational self-consciousness seems to characterize the whole subject of turns, including the essays in the forum. Seizing upon this perspective, he surveys a number of dissertations by younger scholars, in part to re-examine the balance between continuity and disjuncture in scholarly generations. He finds that while many of the concerns central to the cultural and linguistic turns play a part in current thinking and practice, these are framed by a "pragmatic approach" illustrated by a renewed interest in the histories of communication, transportation, material culture and political economy.