Kategoria BISAC: History >> Social History

In early nineteenth-century America, the production and commercial distribution of reading matter came face-to-face with social literary practices. As mass readerships emerged, so did a mass authorship grasping after newly available literary dollars. Yet they did not immediately embrace market values. Instead, writers - even heavily promoted literary celebrities -- struggled to preserve some semblance of social sense, rooted in social authorship and dissemination practices. Summoning a host of ordinary Americans' voices in diaries and letters, the Zborays uncover a neglected, yet pivotal...

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of vacation habits and the observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists such as Aristotle, Mark Twain and Thorstein Veblen, Al Gini argues why vacations are so venerated and why 'doing nothing' is a fundamental human necessity.

From shopping sprees and extreme sports to the ultimate vacation - retirement - The Importance of Being lazy demonstrates that without true leisure, we are diminished as individuals and as a society.

From simple barbettes, crespines, and wimples worn in Anglo-Saxon times to the pillbox hat popularized by Jackie Kennedy in the mid-twentieth century, hats and headdresses have -- for centuries -- played an important part of a lady's wardrobe. This informative and meticulously researched book provides an authentic record of more than 1,300 years of changing fashions in women's hairstyles and headwear in England.
More than 400 of the author's own drawings -- rendered from ancient sources -- trace these evolving fashions. Finely detailed images depict turbans; horned, heart-shaped, and...

Covering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, the essays in this volume depict a rich variety of non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders. Taken together, the essays suggest that a much wider range of socio-cultural practices must be taken into account if we wish to understand how the world of dominated groups is constrained, modified and conditioned by power relations.

Topics range from the form of resistance represented by the...

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is "disappearing." The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the past one hundred years. The author draws...

This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is "disappearing." The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the past one hundred years. The author draws...

What is it like to be Jewish and to be born and raised in Germany after the Holocaust? Based on candid interviews with nearly 100 German Jews, this book offers an understanding of how the memory of the Holocaust shapes Jews' everyday lives. As their views of non-Jewish Germans and of themselves, their political integration into German society, and their friendships and relationships with Germans are uncovered, the obstacles to readjustment when sociocultural memory is still present are better understood. This is also a book about Jewish identity in the midst of modernity. It shows how the...

Literacy in American Lives traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the...

This volume deals with the question of inequality through race, class and gender. Most studies only concern themselves with either class and gender, or with the combination of race or gender. What happens if we throw all three concepts into the analysis? The volume seeks to explore how race, class and gender are interrelated in the study of topics such as social transformation, national identity, sexuality and work. The volume should be of interest to both students and scholars in gender and race studies, labor history, sociology, history, non-Western history.

This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industrialization did not lead to the destruction of nineteenth-century family life, as the traditionally dominant view contended. This innovative study also illuminates wider social issues--the nature of hierarchies, class structure and household organization.

Organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, this text is divided into eight chapters: childhood; youth and sexuality; courtship and weddings; married life; economic life; networks and communities; and widow-hood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behaviour influenced social, economic, and religious change.

John Burnett provides the history of the economic, social and cultural phenomenon of eating out in England.

"DREDGED" is the third and final book in Barbara Bowen Feied's account of life in the United States from 1930 to 1980. The 1970s was a bridge decade between the social idealism of the 1960s and the materialistic "me"ism of the 1980s. But through recession, inflation, continuing anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, the Watergate scandals, life went on, children grew up, careers were begun and ended, new goals set and, sometimes, achieved.

The diaspora of immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century brought Spaniards, Cubans and Sicilians to Tampa's Ybor City, then the cigar capital of the world. These Latinos lived in a cigar-manufacturing district bordering "colored town." Anglos, making no distinction, called them "Latin niggers."

It was the Sicilian constituency the author joined--a culture steeped in ancient customs and traditions. In the shade of cigar factories, the child of cigarmakers resurrects a vanished time and place. It is the story of cigarmaker lives, and a boy rolling with the punches while...

Since their first collaborative appearance in the mid-1840s, Marx and Engles have become central players in the western intellectual tradition. They have inspired two significant Communist revolutions of the 20th century--the Russian and Chinese. "Marx in Context" delineates the principal ideas of Marx and Engels as it pertains to such subjects as human exploitation, alienation, the sufferings of the 19 century working class in England and their human condition, imperialism, the women's question and religion. Marx's ideas are discussed in precise detail with other socialist and conservative...

William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read."

The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them.

This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A....

William E. Correll (Life Treatment Center) "This book describes the way alcoholics actually think better than anything I have ever read."

The world of the good old-timers of the early Alcoholics Anonymous movement comes alive in this book. It tells the interlocking stories of seven people from diverse backgrounds--men, women, black, white, wealthy, poor--who lived and taught the A.A. program with such clarity and spiritual depth, that people came from miles away to sit at their feet and be taught by them.

This account was originally written for the local intergroups, to tell how A.A....

"Myths and Realities" creates a comprehensive picture of human life and culture, while at the same time placing it within the larger cosmic context. In recent decades, all areas of human knowledge have expanded to an unprecedented degree, so the overall context of human existence is at last beginning to emerge.

In order to present such a wide-ranging portrait, "Myths and Realities" looks at history and human nature from several different viewpoints, giving special attention to four major topics: culture, science, religion and war. Science is a major contributor because it is the most...

It is the authors belief (chronicled in this work), that the term Afro-American is a misguided and fallacious label for identifying people of color brought to America in chains. It therefore is a 'Must Read" for those (Black or White), desiring to understand the 'Why - When - How - and What Now" of the American Black culture.