James W Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK J W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Kids Are All Right
RUN A FEW WEB SEARCHES FOR the term “cultural turn,” and you will begin to grasp the scope of an increasingly viral concept. In Google Books alone, you will find more than 100,000 citations, the bibliographic traces of the concept’s extended wandering.1 Switch to the search engine at OCLC WorldCat, ArticleFirst, or ECO, and the numbers become less daunting, somewhere on the order of a few hundred hits. In these more specialized databases, however…
The Cultural Turn in U. S. History
A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpu…
The Arts of Deception
These two books are much alike: Both are thick descriptive cultural histories of Barnumesque humbug and even share a common publisher and origins as University of California, Berkeley, dissertations. Still, they are not at all redundant and are worth reading together. James W. Cook's The Arts of Deception draws on the well-known theme of the nineteenth-century urban confidence man to explore commercial exhibits based on outrageous deception. He f…
The Arts of Deception
These two books are much alike: Both are thick descriptive cultural histories of Barnumesque humbug and even share a common publisher and origins as University of California, Berkeley, dissertations. Still, they are not at all redundant and are worth reading together. James W. Cook's The Arts of Deception draws on the well-known theme of the nineteenth-century urban confidence man to explore commercial exhibits based on outrageous deception. He f…
The Kids Are All Right
RUN A FEW WEB SEARCHES FOR the term “cultural turn,” and you will begin to grasp the scope of an increasingly viral concept. In Google Books alone, you will find more than 100,000 citations, the bibliographic traces of the concept’s extended wandering.1 Switch to the search engine at OCLC WorldCat, ArticleFirst, or ECO, and the numbers become less daunting, somewhere on the order of a few hundred hits. In these more specialized databases, however…
The Arts of Deception
These two books are much alike: Both are thick descriptive cultural histories of Barnumesque humbug and even share a common publisher and origins as University of California, Berkeley, dissertations. Still, they are not at all redundant and are worth reading together. James W. Cook's The Arts of Deception draws on the well-known theme of the nineteenth-century urban confidence man to explore commercial exhibits based on outrageous deception. He f…
The Cultural Turn in U. S. History
A definitive account of one of the most dominant trends in recent historical writing, Cultural Turn in U.S. History takes stock of the field at the same time as it showcases exemplars of its practice.The first of this volume's three distinct sections offers a comprehensive genealogy of American cultural history, tracing its multifaceted origins, defining debates, and intersections with adjacent fields. The second section comprises previously unpu…
The Kids Are All Right
RUN A FEW WEB SEARCHES FOR the term “cultural turn,” and you will begin to grasp the scope of an increasingly viral concept. In Google Books alone, you will find more than 100,000 citations, the bibliographic traces of the concept’s extended wandering.1 Switch to the search engine at OCLC WorldCat, ArticleFirst, or ECO, and the numbers become less daunting, somewhere on the order of a few hundred hits. In these more specialized databases, however…
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Biology (1 works)