The Kids Are All Right

On the “Turning” of Cultural History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9488372
AutoresJames Cook (0009-0009-2625-1880, autor correspondente), James W Cook
Ano2012
Volume117
Fascículo3
Páginas746-771
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/ahr.117.3.746
OpenAlexW1990605522
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

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 searchable content is limited to titles and abstracts. So what you are really seeing is the initial layers of a much larger conversation: the figurative tip of the bibliographic iceberg.2 What might the iceberg tell us? Most of all, perhaps, it provides a wide-angle view of the concept’s current ubiquity. In addition to Victoria Bonnell and Lynn Hunt’s 1999 volume Beyond the Cultural Turn, you will find thousands of recent books invoking “cultural turns” in a wide variety of scholarly contexts—from sociology to

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