A comprehensive social history of the cultural studies movement, with a strong political focus.
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part One: From Category to Institution
1. The Politics of Culture I: Limits of Possibilities, 1945–1968 11
2. The Politics of Culture II: Tensions of Continuity, 1790–1968 35
Part Two: From Alliance to Bandwagon
3. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies I 73
4. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies II 108
5. A Rose by Any Other Name? The Wide World and Many Modes of Cultural Studies 140
Part Three: From Resistance to Transition
6. Conjunctural Knowledge I: Structures of Order, 1945–1968 173
7. Conjunctural Knowledge II: Patters of Disarray, 1968 and After 192
8. The Near Future of the Long Term: A Bricoleur's World 206
Notes 215
Works Cited 237
Index 267
Richard E. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton.