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cultural histories

  • plural
    of cultural history.
    cultural history
    noun
    a study or account of a society's past that focuses on aspects of culture, such as the development of ideas, the arts, religion, lifestyle, etc., rather than primarily political events.

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One of the most melancholy cultural histories is that of the short-lived Russian Renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Tucci in Italy” is a five-part journey through breathtaking landscapes, rich culinary traditions and the intimate cultural histories that shape Italian identity, region by region.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

Rather, it’s the other way around: Works of art are being asked to explain cultural histories of cosmology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

The book is a marvelous centrifuge, in which political and cultural histories of the American 20th century collapse.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023

All of those environmental differences influenced the two hemi-continents’ very disparate cultural histories, which we shall now consider.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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