Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain

Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author: Dennis R. Mills
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317221982

First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the estate system influenced urban development and how the peasant system facilitated the industrialisation of many villages. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian and social history, industrialisation and urbanisation.

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Author: Barrington Moore
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1993-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780807050736

This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age. “Throughout the book, there is the constant play of a mind that is scholarly, original, and imbued with the rarest gift of all, a deep sense of human reality . . . This book will influence a whole generation of young American historians and lead them to problems of the greatest significance.” —The New York Review of Books

Peasant, Lord, and Merchant

Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Author: Allan Greer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802065780

Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley – Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis – from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency; as in other peasant societies, the habitants lived mainly from produce grown throught their own efforts on their own lands. How the family-based economy operated and how the household was reproduced over the generations through marriage, birth, inheritance, and colonization, together form a major focus of this study.

Political Poetry as Discourse

Political Poetry as Discourse
Author: Angela M. Leonard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780739122846

Political Poetry as Discourse examines the works of the political poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Ebenezer Elliott, drawing comparisons to contemporary hip hoppers who take their words from local newspapers and other discursive sources that they read, hear, and observe. Local presses and news vehicles stand as cultural material forms that supply poets with words, particularly words that congeal into patterns of language, allowing the creation of a poetic discourse. As readers of these poets apply techniques and theories of discourse analysis, they reveal how poets borrow, lift, hijack, or resituate words from one or more different genres to use as tools of political change. Leonard engages with the critical toolboxes of content analysis, semiosis, and deconstruction to demonstrate how to critically investigate and interrogate the images, sounds and words not just of politically engaged poets, but also of any disseminator of culture and news. Moving beyond theory into praxis, this book becomes a model of its own transgressive premise by thinking, analyzing, writing, and teaching against the grain. Its focus on language as unbounded discourse makes this book a relevant and insightful demonstration in democratic pedagogy and in teaching for transformation.

Class and Space (RLE Social Theory)

Class and Space (RLE Social Theory)
Author: Nigel Thrift
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317652088

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the study of modern societies, integrating the work of human geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which emphasises the essential unity of social science.

Witchcraft in the Modern World

Witchcraft in the Modern World
Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136538275

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

Peasants and Historians

Peasants and Historians
Author: Phillipp R. Schofield
Publisher: Manchester Medieval Studies
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780719053788

This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789 - 1914

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789 - 1914
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 140515232X

This Companion provides an overview of European history during the 'long' nineteenth century, from 1789 to 1914. Consists of 32 chapters written by leading international scholars Balances coverage of political, diplomatic and international history with discussion of economic, social and cultural concerns Covers both Eastern and Western European states, including Britain Pays considerable attention to smaller countries as well as to the great powers Compares particular phenomena and developments across Europe

The Agrarian History of England and Wales

The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Edward John T. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 994
Release: 2000
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9780521329262

The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.