The World We Have Lost

ISBN-13: 9780367705336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 326 str.

Peter Laslett; Kevin Schürer

Opis

The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and remains as fresh and exhilarating today as upon its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schürer.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Kevin Schürer  Introduction  1. English society before and after the coming of industry  2. A one-class society  3. The village community  4. Misbeliefs about our ancestors  5. Births, marriages and deaths  6. Did the peasants really starve?  7. Personal discipline and social survival  8. Social change and revolution in the traditional world  9. The pattern of authority and our political heritage  10. The politics of exclusion and the rule of an élite  11. After the transformation  12. Understanding ourselves in time   General Note  List of Authorities  Index

O autorze

Peter Laslett (1915–2001) was a Life Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A leading historian of his generation, he was one of the founders of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. A passionate advocate for using radio and television to help history reach a wider audience, he worked as a BBC radio producer and ran a series of programmes on Anglia Television, the 'Dawn University'. With the sociologist Michael Young he also helped establish the Open University in 1969.