Book series
PICKERING & CHATTO
Studies in Cultural History
for the International Society of Cultural HistorySeries editors: Anu Korhonen and Birgitta Svensson
Published with the International Society for Cultural History, http://www.abdn.ac.uk/isch/
In research and teaching, the vitality of cultural history is burgeoning, with a variety of interpretations of culture cross-fertilising between disciplines - history, critical theory, literature and media, anthropology and ethnology, and many more.
This series focuses on the study of conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of the past, and sees culture as encompassing both textual production and social practice. It seeks to highlight historical and cultural processes of meaning-making and explore the ways in which people of the past made sense of their world.
We welcome contributions that are theoretically informed, conceptually lucid and empirically grounded, relating to the cultural history of any time period or geographical area. We appreciate rethinking of cultural and historical concepts, methods, and theories, and encourage innovative writing and “experimental” history.
Submissions are invited from established scholars, as well as less experienced practitioners, working in the field of ‘cultural history’ in its most inclusive sense. Works accepted into the series will be scholarly monographs and collections of articles (80–100,000 words) of high quality and originality.
Proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic attachment) to one of the series editors:
- proposals for edited collections, Prof. Birgitta Svensson, Dep. of European Ethnology, Nordiska museet, Box 27820, SE - 115 93 Stockholm, Sweden (Birgitta.svensson@nordiskamuseet.se )
- proposals for monographs, Dr. Anu Korhonen, Renvall Institute, PO Box 59, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland (anu.korhonen@helsinki.fi ).
The editors will require a detailed proposal of at least 8–10 pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter. For proposal guidelines, please see http://www.pickeringchatto.com/menu/publish_with_us/send_us_a_proposal. It is envisaged that contracts will be offered to the most promising authors on this basis.
The series will have a wide appeal to scholars working in Cultural History, whatever their disciplinary background. While the volumes will be scholarly works of primary research, they should be accessible to able undergraduates as well as postgraduate researchers and academics.
Assoc. Prof. Chris Dixon is Coordinator of the University of Queensland’s Cultural History Project. His principal research interests are in American cultural history.
Dr. Anu Korhonen is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki. Her research interests focus on cultural and gender history of early modern Britain.
Dr. Jürgen Pieters teaches literary theory and theories of cultural history at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Prof. Birgitta Svensson is professor of European Ethnology at Stockholm University and Nordiska museet (Swedish Cultural History museum). Her research focus on marginalization processes, urban studies and heritage.