Michelle Perrot

Bio: Michelle Perrot is an academic researcher from Paris Diderot University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Women's history & Historiography. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 85 publications receiving 1109 citations.

A History of Private Life. Volume 4, From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War.

Abstract: Introduction by Michelle Perrot 1. The Curtain Rises by Lynn Hunt, Catherine Hall Introduction by Michelle Perrot The Unstable Boundaries of the French Revolution The Sweet Delights of Home 2. The Actors by Michelle Perrot, Anne Martin-Fugier Introduction by Michelle Perrot The Family Triumphant Roles and Characters Bourgeois Rituals 3. Scenes and Places by Michelle Perrot, Roger-Henri Guerrand At Home Private Spaces 4. Backstage by Alain Corbin Introduction by Michelle Perrot The Secret of the Individual Intimate Relations Cries and Whispers Conclusion by Michelle Perrot Notes Bibliography Credits Index

The sources of social power

Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Abstract: A blind spot? the birth of an ideology clearing away the rubbish print culture nationalising religion the culture of science anatomising human nature the science of politics secularising modernising happiness from good sense to sensibility nature did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea the vulgar the pursuit of wealth reform progress the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy" lasting light?

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

Abstract: Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But theres a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private livesoften of dubious reliability and sometimes totally falsewill follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balancebetweenprivacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free. (11/01/2007)

Companion to Historiography

Abstract: Introduction: The Project of Historiography Section 1: Beginnings - East and West Introduction 1.1 Asian Historiography: Two Traditions 1.2 Historiography and Greek Self-Definition .3 Re-Reading the Roman Historians 1.4 The Historiography of Rural Labour 1.5 Towards Late-Antiquity Section 2: The Medieval World Introduction 2.1 The Historiography of the Medieval State 2.2 Saladin and the Third Crusade 2.3 Family and Household 2.4 The Medieval Nobility 2.5 Armies and Warfare 2.6 Popular Religion Section 3: Early-Modern Historiography Introduction 3.1 The Idea of Early Modern History 3.2 The Scientific Revolution 3.3 Intellectual History 3.4 The English Reformation 3.5 Popular Culture in the Early-Modern West 3.6 Revisionism in Britain Section 4: Reflecting on the Modern Age Introduction I: Revolution and Ideology 4.1 The French Revolution 4.2 The Soviet Revolution 4.3 National Socialism in Germany 4.4 Fascism and Beyond in Italy 4.5 Orientalism London: II Area Studies 4.6 China 4.7 Japan 4.8 India 4.9 Africa 4.10 North America 4.11 Latin America Section 5: Contexts for the Writing of History I: Hinterlands 5.1 History and Philosophy 5.2 History and Anthropology 5.3 History and Archaeology 5.4 History of Art II: Approaches 5.5 The Historical Narrative 5.6 The Annales School 5.7 Marxist Historiography 5.8 Women in Historiography 5.9 Comparative World History 5.10 Archives and Technology

Globalization Threatens Labor's Rights

Abstract: Furthermore, Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod argues that during the same near-millennium the world globalized culturally twice before the twentieth century: with the introduction of mass printing in the fifteenth century and with the introduction of the telegraph and telephone in the nineteenth century.2 Thus we have at least five candidates for major waves of globali zation between 1200 and 1900 a.d. Some of them collapsed; Mongol do minion, for example, seems to have succumbed to a combination of plague, climatic variation that reduced the agricultural productivity of the Mon gols' grain-growing prey, and a European maritime outflanking of the over land trade route between East Asia and Europe. Other waves contributed to a stairstep advance in connectedness. What about the twentieth century? Are new forms and intensities of globalization comparable to these earlier political, economic, and cultural transformations occurring in our own time? Many commentators have said that recent changes far surpass any previous knitting together of the world.3 Any such hyperbole calls for definition and measurement. Ideally, globalization means an increase in the geographic range of locally conse quential social interactions, especially when that increase stretches a signif