Introduction : lowering history's defences -- Is all the world a text? Social history and the linguistic turn -- Lack of discipline : social history, cultural studies, and 1968 -- No need to choose : the profane and imperfect world of historiography -- Nations, publics, and political cultures : placing habermas in the nineteenth century -- Politics, culture, and the public sphere : what a difference Habermas made -- Labour history -- social history -- Alltagsgeschichte : experience, culture, and the politics of the everyday; or, new ground for German social history -- Conjuncture and the politics of knowledge : the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), 1968-1984 -- Imperial imaginary, colonial effect : writing the colony and the metropole together -- Empire by land or sea? Germany's imperial imaginary, 1840-1945 -- Historicizing the global, politicizing capital : giving the present a name -- Stuart Hall, 1930-2014.
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