Comparative literature review of cultural history

Comparative literature review of the following books (please also refer to my book reviews on these books which I am going to upload) guided by 2 book chapters; Introduction: History, Culture, and Text by Lynn Hunt from The New Cultural History edited by Lynn Hunt, and Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History by Richard Biernacki from Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture edited by Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt, Hayden White as conceptual or theoretical guide (these book chapters will also be uploaded). The theme of the literature review would be position cultural history approach in colonial and postcolonial history and dynamic and contested knowledge creation process.

Books:

1. The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todorov

http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1079/the%20conquest%20of%20america

2. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine

http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780195157949.html

3. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India by Bernard S. Cohn

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5870.html

4. Colonising Egypt by Timothy Mitchell

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520075689

Colonising Egypt Full Text: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft587006k2/

Book Chapters:

Introduction: History, Culture, and Text by Lynn Hunt

From The New Cultural History edited by Lynn Hunt

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520064294

Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History by Richard Biernacki

From Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture edited by Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt, Hayden White

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520216792

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