TY - JOUR AU - Hirst, Derek M. AB - Modern Europe 1241 intellect and feeling, the ideal and the actual, fantasy history it exemplifies-is that it thematizes the rela­ and reality, past and present, theory and practice, tionship between cultural ideals and their social and production and consumption, and a new, aestheticized economic appropriation, which cultural historians of sense of national and social solidarity. This model, any period should find rewarding. inspired in part by romanticism and Saint-Simonism, ROBERT ANCHOR first took hold in France, where the Louvre and other Phoenix, Arizona museums, generously supported by the state, served to propagate the values of the French Revolution. But it PAUL GRIFFITHS, ADAM Fox, and STEVE HINDLE, edi­ was quickly accepted and adapted to local conditions tors. The Experience of Authority in Early Modern in Wurtternberg and elsewhere and was eventually England. (Themes in Focus.) New York: St. Martin's. used against France and England. 1996. Pp. vii, 331. $45.00. The bulk of the book deals with the adaptation of the French model in Wurtternberg, especially in its Those who despair at disciplinary centrifugalism can capital, Stuttgart. To explain this development, Cleve take heart: social historians are joining new historicists proceeds more as a cultural sociologist than a conven­ in TI - Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox, and Steve Hindle, editors. The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England. (Themes in Focus.) New York: St. Martin's. 1996. Pp. vii, 331. $45.00 JF - The American Historical Review DO - 10.1086/ahr/103.4.1241 DA - 1998-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/paul-griffiths-adam-fox-and-steve-hindle-editors-the-experience-of-mA017OvzpO SP - 1241 EP - 1242 VL - 103 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -