Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History

by Olivier Zunz, Charles Tilly, David William Cohen, William B. Taylor, William T. Rowe

Overview

Five historians uncover the ties between people’s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area’s development. They stress the need for a social history that connects individuals to major ideological, political, and economic transformations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469611235
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	02/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	346
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	3
Chapter 1	Retrieving European Lives	11
Chapter 2	The Synthesis of Social Change: Reflections on American Social History	53
Chapter 3	Between Global Process and Local Knowledge: An Inquiry into Early Latin American Social History, 1500-1900	115
Chapter 4	Doing Social History from Pim's Doorway	191
Chapter 5	Approaches to Modern Chinese Social History	236
	Bibliography	297
	Contributors	325
	Index	327