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Social History, Local History, and Historiography
Roger C. Richardson
其他書名
Collected Essays
出版Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011-09-22
主題History / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / HistoriographyHistory / Social History
ISBN14438339169781443833912
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Sx0rBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This wide-ranging volume collects together twelve of the author’s longer essays, mainly drawn from those first published in the last two decades. Chiefly consisting of micro-studies of a variety of different aspects of early modern English history, the book concerns itself with social and economic change, the period of the English Revolution and its long-lasting impact, with Puritanism, with the family as a social institution, and with historical consciousness and different forms of historical writing. Some of the essays focus on a particular individual, not all well known – William Camden, John Milner, and Ralph Dutton – to open up a broader theme. One boldly attempts a comparison over three centuries of the evolution of local history as a subject on both sides of the Atlantic. Two other essays reach out into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but do so with echoes of the subject matter of some of those dealing with the early modern period. The inter-connectedness of social history, local history, and historiography is stressed and illustrated throughout. Both specialists and non-specialists will find much to interest them in this varied and rewarding volume.