By Peter N. Stearns
Peter N. Stearns. Encyclopedia of ecu Social heritage. Charles Scribners & Sons, 2001. 2988 Pages
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Since the 1929 ebook of the French magazine Annales, social historical past has progressively develop into a dominant sector of research. The social background "paradigm" emphasizes an eclectic examine of social approaches, pop culture, interval "mentalities," printed the place attainable via quantitative method. famous authors, akin to Ferdnand Braudel (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean international within the Age of Philip II, 1972) and E.P. Thompson (The Making of the English operating category, 1963), have now given strategy to a bewildering complicated of topics, sort, strategy, and interval. the good worth of this encyclopedia is to consolidate a lot of this paintings in a few 209 articles equipped in 23 sections. the fashion is usually transparent, and the content material is accomplished. the ecu emphasis displays the pursuits and paintings of students who've produced a lot social heritage. a few readers could locate the stability of the paintings a bit curious, e.g., "Catholicism" within the "Religion" part gets approximately as a lot cognizance as "Animals and Pets" within the "Everyday Life" part. Omissions is also bizarre, as within the biography part, including Tolstoy yet now not Dostoyevsky and Mozart yet no longer Beethoven. ultimately, maps are usually not enough to the desires of the articles, however the illustrations are large. regardless of those drawbacks, this can be a very helpful reference. The part on technique makes a good, if oblique, case for social heritage itself, and total the therapy of conceptual matters comparable to regionalism, periodization, and urbanization can be of specific use to scholars. such a lot authors are solidly verified students, and a few, like Charles and Louise Tilly, Emil Niederhauser, and Jeremy Black, are highly prolific. instructed for tutorial and bigger public libraries. Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania kingdom Univ., Erie
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This encyclopedia ways and offers glossy eu social historical past from a number of complementary views. vast essays within the first quantity offer foundational details for readers new to social background or the heritage of nations or areas or significant themes. these essays clarify the equipment of social heritage (e.g., cliometrics, gender thought, microhistory), the sociohistorical classes into which glossy Europe may be divided (e.g., Renaissance, Enlightenment, post-World conflict II), and the formative social and cultural affects in numerous areas or international locations. a person who reads the insightful, analytical 12-page essay at the Balkans will know the way advanced and maybe finally intractable that region's difficulties are and lengthy have been.
The moment via 5th volumes hold the rest of the set's 209 essays, all of comparable intensity and caliber. those are prepared into 19 topical sections overlaying, between different topics, "Rural Life," "Social Structure," "The family members and Age Groups," "Work," "Religion," and "Everyday Life." particular article subject matters comprise "Agriculture," "Alcohol and Temperance," "Holidays," "Literacy," "Men and Masculinity," "Nationalism," and "Preindustrial Manufacturing." each signed article, such a lot through lecturers at universities within the English-speaking international, concludes with see additionally references to similar articles and a bibliography of correct works. Books and English-language courses predominate within the bibliographies.
Judiciously selected photos, reproductions of interval work and courses, and maps illustrate the articles. those variety as broadly as eu background, from a portray depicting the execution of England's Charles I to Mickey Mouse on parade at Euro-Disney. Social historical past lends itself to the grand landscape in addition to to small issues emblematic of an age or subject. Sidebar articles current these issues, protecting, for instance, progressive France's Liberty Tree culture, a short heritage of the English public university establishment, and recommendation to fifteenth-century widows in France to prevent remarriage. The 6th quantity contains approximately three hundred biographies of people "important in social history." those were culled from Gale courses akin to modern Authors, Encyclopedia of global Biography, and ancient international Leaders. The resource of every is noted.
All of those assorted contents are obtainable via an intensive index. It identifies references to tables, maps, illustrations, or sidebars through offering their volume-page citations in italics.
By layout and during execution of that layout, the encyclopedia serves a number of reasons. Its foundational essays can be utilized to introduce students--even scholars learning components and sessions except sleek Europe--to the innovations and techniques of social historical past. Its kingdom and neighborhood essays complement textbooks and supply overviews and context for different old ways, resembling diplomatic or army background. And its topical essays supply in-depth research and exposition of important matters in eu social heritage. All in all, the encyclopedia doesn't simply fill a void within the reference literature; it fills it masterfully. steered for educational and massive public libraries. The writer designates the set for high-school use besides, even though that crew could locate a few sections heavy going. RBB
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Book Details
Hardcover: 3000 pages
writer: Charles Scribners & Sons; 1 version (December 20, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684805820
ISBN-13: 978-0684805825
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.1 x 11.5 inches
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Population of London is 864,000; population of Paris is 547,756. 6 percent during the nineteenth century. In France, domination of Napoleon (to 1815). Concordat between France and the papacy restores Catholic Church (1802). Napoleonic Code codifies French civil law (1804). Napoleonic Wars (1802– 1815). Spain’s Latin American colonies take advantage of the situation and stage successful wars of independence (to 1820s) Robert Owen creates a utopian factory town in New Lanark, Scotland (1800). Philippe Pinel, Traite´ sur l’alie´nation mentale ou la manie (1801).
Revue de synthe`se historique founded (1900). Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1905–1906). Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Local Government (1906–1909). 1890s In Denmark, one-third of women over age 15 work outside the home; half work as servants, one-sixth work in industry, figures that are echoed throughout Europe. Infant welfare clinics established in Barcelona (1890). Switzerland introduces a national social insurance program (1890). Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, encyclical on condition of workers (1893).
Sigmund Freud and others found Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society (1908). Edward VII, king of the United Kingdom (1901– 1910). Revue de synthe`se historique founded (1900). Max Weber, Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1905–1906). Sidney and Beatrice Webb, English Local Government (1906–1909). 1890s In Denmark, one-third of women over age 15 work outside the home; half work as servants, one-sixth work in industry, figures that are echoed throughout Europe. Infant welfare clinics established in Barcelona (1890).