A Social History Of England
Download A Social History Of England full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free A Social History Of England ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Asa Briggs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780140136067 |
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 | : Asa Briggs |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mr Dick Leith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134711441 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780511648595 |
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 | : Keith Wrightson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781108206150 |
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 | : Steven Shapin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2011-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022614884X |
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 | : John Lawson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134531958 |
Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.
Author | : Keith Wrightson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041791 |
The first overview of early modern English social history since the 1980s, bringing together the leading authorities in the field.
Author | : Tony Collins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134023340 |
From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.
Author | : J. A. Sharpe |
Publisher | : Hodder Education |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Angleterre - Conditions sociales |
ISBN | : 9780713165128 |