[PDF] A Social History Of England eBook

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : England
ISBN : 9780140136067

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Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.

Author : Mr Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134711441

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A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.

Author : Ormrod W M Horrox Rosemary
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780511648595

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Drawing together the very best of current historical scholarship, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to English society in the later Middle Ages. Beginning with a discussion of the historiography of the period and debates about demography, the book then explores the full breadth of English life and society.

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 022614884X

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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world. Shapin uses detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of the mores and manners of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate Shapin's broad claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Knowledge-making is always a collective enterprise: people have to know whom to trust in order to know something about the natural world.

Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2017
Category : England
ISBN : 9781108206150

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The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This volume serves two main purposes. Firstly, it summarises, in an accessible way, the principal findings of forty years of research on English society in this period, providing a comprehensive overview of social and cultural change in an era vital to the development of English social identities. Second, the chapters, by leading experts, also stimulate fresh thinking by not only taking stock of current knowledge but also extending it, identifying problems, proposing fresh interpretations and pointing to unexplored possibilities. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and general readers.

Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041791

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The first overview of early modern English social history since the 1980s, bringing together the leading authorities in the field.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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Originally published in 1983 by Weidenfeld and Nicholson this is the third revised edition of this exploration of English society, brought up to the present day. Briggs's approach to history is to emphasize human experience rather than concepts, switching from kitchen to drawing room or garden, from field to factory.

Author : Francois Bedarida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1136097325

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In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single European market. Making full use of the Annales school of French historiography, Bédarida takes his inquiry beyond conventional views to penetrate the attitudes, behaviour and psychology of the British people.