Social History

This book explores the development of the putting-out system in hand-woven textile industries in late Qing Dynasty and China's Republican Period. In classic sociology theory, the putting-out system in handcraft production was regarded as traditional and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783412225377Author Volha Olga SasunkevichFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau VerlagWeight(grams) 296g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224708Author Peter BurkeFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224111Author Peter BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224388Author Bentley B. GilbertFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224296Author Professor Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224449Author H. Gustav KlausFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224364Author Lady Mary TeviotFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454038Author W. D. RubinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454007Author Michael J. CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454588Author Asa BriggsFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911454267Author Louis JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204657Author F. M. L. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204381Author Peter BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204701Author D. A. HamerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

The two volumes of Marxism and Historical Practice bring together a wide range of essays written by one of the major Marxist historians of the last 50 years. Collected in Volume II, Interventions and Appreciations, are articles and reviews capturing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850770480Author Edward GibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Darf Publishers LtdPublisher Darf Publishers Ltd

"This is a persuasive and timely collection. Celebrity and charisma are very much on the current research agenda. This volume deals with these issues in a serious, insightful manner, making an original contribution to what is now a rising field of...

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary...

Delve into this trove of anecdotes and stories to prove the core decency of humankind at a time when kindness can seem in short supply.This engaging collection demonstrates that courteous behaviour transcends all barriers, from gender and wealth to age...

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schoenebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives:...

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the Soviet era. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the...

Ar hyd y canrifoedd, bu'r gyfraith yn ysgogi, ysbrydoli a chynddeiriogi beirdd a llenorion Cymru. Dyma gyfrol arloesol sydd yn adrodd hanes yr ymateb llenyddol i syniadau, swyddogion a sefydliadau'r gyfraith. Ceir ynddi astudiaeth thematig a phanoramig...

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide...

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores...

Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352476Author Shane McCorristineFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 700g

This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions...

Dyma gyfrol sy'n ymdrin a hanes Cymry America yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, trwy lygaid y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg. Cynrychiolai'r cyfnod rhwng 1838 ac 1866 ei hoes aur, ond ychydig iawn o ymchwil sydd wedi darlunio hynt a helynt yr ymfudwyr o Gymru...

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive "authenticity" that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about...

In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public a la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such...

Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn't. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding...

Telecommunication has undergone unprecedented change in recent times. Two hundred years ago, Sir Francis Ronalds foresaw its development and imagined a world of 'electrical conversations'. His subsequent creations, the most important of which include an...

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization-challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed...

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes...

Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics focuses on the political discourse about both the pattern and the desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process can alter. It is...

When workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across the world, and continue to inspire activists to this day. This carefully assembled and expertly translated collection of...

One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city...

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy. They are all provincial novelists who wrote about social change and the attendant problems and pressures this...