Cultural History

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, related to World History and Cultures.

As might be expected in an age of globalisation, the theme of cultural encounters is attracting more and more historians, not to mention anthropologists and sociologists. What happens to culture when groups with very different traditions meet, fight, or coexist in relative peace? Do cultures mix as in a soup, or do they clash like armies? Can they be translated like texts, or hybridised like plants?

Welcome to the Making History: The changing face of the profession in Britain. A research project from the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) which explores the changing faces of the discipline of history in the United Kingdom.

Experience 2,000 years of Japan's rich history, from samurai to zen, kabuki, and beyond. Immerse yourself in Japan's unique land, art, food, and culture.

The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets offering comprehensive surveys of the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods.

How the pursuit of contentment has shaped the West's culture and economy.

The word is relatively new, but the idea has been around for decades.

Welcome to the official website of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH).

Welcome to the Making History: The changing face of the profession in Britain. A research project from the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) which explores the history of the discipline of history in the United Kingdom.

Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter encompasses the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future pertaining to a culture.