A reference surveying the main considerations, findings, and terms of social history. The protection includes main classes within social historical past (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); main features of life for which social historical past has supplied an important per
Social history, as a particular discipline or method of research taking a look at human social behavior over the ages, has grown in prominence since the 1960s. This encyclopedia presents an overview of the sphere defining "the most characteristic options and points" and "with out pretending to cowl each regional social history totally, presents primary options of social historical past geographically defined." It therefore includes such entries as Chinese Gender Relations, Latin American Ethnicity, and Russian Girls in addition to the more general topics Hunting and Gathering, Mass Culture, Cleanliness, and Punishment and Prisons.
Edited by Stearns, Heinz Professor of Historical past at Carnegie-Mellon University and editor of the Journal of Social Historical past, all entries were written by scholars at primarily American institutions. Organized alphabetically, entries range from one-half web page to more than six pages in length (Household); the common is two pages. Every is signed and includes a temporary bibliography (usually roughly six objects); most are books, but just a few periodical articles have been noted. Different books can also be talked about within the textual content of the entry; for instance, Gauchos, Llaneros includes point out of several memorable novels depicting these horsemen. All time periods and areas are lined, although not always consistently. The amount has a topical desk of contents that divides the entries into some 22 subject categories (e.g., Arts, Culture and Beliefs, Methodology) and 6 regions (Africa, Classical Civilizations, United States), so one can find linkage to all entries on a broader topic. There is additionally a detailed index to folks and ideas mentioned in the entries and frequent see also references to other entries.
The Encyclopedia of Social History is each broader and narrower than the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Social History [RBB Ag 93] in that it has shorter entries that try to cover the whole world. Relating the whole vary of the self-discipline, in a scholarly yet readable way, it will possibly present a superb introduction to the many concepts of social historical past, despite the fact that it doesn't present in-depth protection of anybody area. Academic, public, and high-faculty libraries will need to take into account it for their collections.
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