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Reflections on the origins of cultural history / Peter Burke -- Cultural history in a new key: towards a semiotics of the nerve / George Rousseau -- Bodies of thought : thoughts about the body in eighteenth-century England / Roy Porter -- The representation of the family in the eighteenth century: a challenge for cultural history / Ludmilla Jordanova -- 'Intellectual ornaments ' : style, fucntion and society in some instruments of art / Martin Kemp -- Inventing the common reader : Samuel Johnson and the canon / Lawrence Lipking -- Rewriting the Caribbean past: cultural history in the colonial context / Peter Hulme -- Provincial town culture, 1640-80 : urbane or civic? / Jonathan Barry. Ignorance and revolution: perceptions of social reality in revolutionary Marseilles, 1789-92 / William Scott -- The emergence of a modern vernacular culture in North-East Scotland / Paul Dukes.