Showing papers on "Social history published in 1972"
TL;DR: The 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Carl Degler s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler s groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two countries. Brazil never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum that Brazilian slavery was more humane Degler instead points to a combination of demographic, economic, and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences. In the early 1970s when studies in social history were beginning to blossom on the North American scene, Carl Degler s prize-winning contribution was a thoughtful provocative essay in comparative history. Its thoughtfulness has not diminished with the years. Indeed, it is as topical today as when it was first published. The Brazilian experience with rapid industrialization and its attempt to restore democratic government indicates that the issues which Degler treated in the early 1970s are more pertinent than ever today. Franklin W. Knight, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University."
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01 Jan 1972
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01 Oct 1972
TL;DR: In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. as discussed by the authors, "social history is an important contribution to social history to which students will constantly turn, to which they will be constantly turning."
Abstract: In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., it is an important contribution to social history to which students will constantly turn.
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TL;DR: Elliott and Rowley as discussed by the authors published a comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.
Abstract: When the first edition of History of Nevada was published in 1973, the critics wrote: 'This is an immensely absorbing book about a ruggedly beautiful and wholly intriguing state' - "American West". 'The appearance of History of Nevada is a major event in Nevada historiography' - Richard C. Lillard, "Nevada Historical Society Quarterly". 'Well-written, extensively documented and carefully indexed, [this work] is a valuable contribution for the study of a state too often mentioned only for gold and silver rushes, atomic bomb testing, or the opulent honky tonk of Las Vegas and its ilk' - "Pacific Historian".This updated edition of "History of Nevada" is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers. Russell R. Elliott is the author of "Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom", and William D. Rowley is the author of "U.S. Forest Service Grazing" and "Rangelands: A History". Elliott is a professor of history emeritus and Rowley a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Reno.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a talk to the History of Education Society, given at the London Institute of Education on 22 May 1971, has been used as a basis for the present paper.
Abstract: ∗ This note is based on a talk to the History of Education Society, given at the London Institute of Education on 22 May 1971.
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the historical development of business in the United States during the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries, providing a broad overview of such crucial processes as the emergence of an integrated, national marketplace, the growth and development of the modern corporation, the impact of governmental policy on the business environment, and the globalization of American enterprise, and intensively examine two additional themes: the sources and consequences of fundamental innovations in business strategy, especially in marketing; and the shifting relations between large-scale employers and the members of their workforces.
Abstract: "The business of America," United States President Calvin Coolidge famously declared during the Roaring Twenties, "is business." Although Coolidge's pronouncement remains subject to challenge from numerous vantage points, commercial enterprise has played an extraordinarily important role in shaping American politics, society, and culture since the country’s founding. This course analyzes the historical development of business in the United States during the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. In addition to providing a broad overview of such crucial processes as the emergence of an integrated, national marketplace, the growth and development of the modern corporation, the impact of governmental policy on the business environment, and the globalization of American enterprise, the class will also intensively examine two additional themes: 1) the sources and consequences of fundamental innovations in business strategy, especially in marketing; and 2) the shifting relations between large-scale employers and the members of their workforces.
TL;DR: The concept of political economism was introduced by Dazai Shundai, a leading figure in the school of "ancient studies" of Ogyui Sorai (I666-1728) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: I NTELLECTUAL historians of modern Japan increasingly see as a central problem in Tokugawa thought the development of a conceptual vocabulary regarding political institutions, history, language and nature that had dynamic significance well beyond the "traditional" context in which it was first formulated. Some of these conceptions are important because they permitted certain kinds of perception and action while constricting others, a fact about Tokugawa thought often concealed behind such terms as 'traditional', 'Confucian', 'feudal', and the like that one encounters in general treatments of Tokugawa history. Needless to say, an analysis of these conceptions is especially important for the historian seeking a deeper understanding of Japan's initial engagement with Western thought and institutions in the mid-nineteenth century.' This essay is part of a broader effort at reevaluating the development of political thought in Tokugawa society from the general perspective mentioned above.2 It discusses the concept of "political economism" (keiseisaimin or keizai) as seen in the major writings of Dazai Shundai, a leading figure in the school of "ancient studies" (kogaku) of Ogyui Sorai (I666-1728). It explores in Dazai a particular analytical perception of political structure and of how political structure should perform in concrete historical situations. It seeks to clarify elements in that perception that might be permissive of new modes of political action and hence might sanction historical change. In this respect, this essay views the intellectual formulation of "political economism" as an important set of "events" in the political and social history of early eighteenth century Japan. The focus on Dazai, then, is for a special reason. In a manner more systematic than most writers of his time, he formulated what is to a modern historian a provocative concept of economic well-being in society as the central aim of politics. By his own admission, many of his thoughts were not new. They are traceable to his mentor Ogyfi, and no doubt there are antecedents for them in Chinese history and in the development of "Legalist" thought in particular. Yet, he, more than any other scholar in Ogyui's school, concentrated his thoughts almost exclusively on the problem of current politics. Avoiding the hedonistic attractions of aesthetics and philology, Dazai explored, in a manner that is strikingly unique, the logical limits
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the sword dance of Papa Stour and the Highland rell steps, as well as the directors and directresses of the Edinburgh assembly and the Charter of the Northern Meeting.
Abstract: Comprend des appendices: A- Sword dance of Papa Stour; B- Highland rell steps; C- Directors and directresses of the Edinburgh assembly; D- Charter of the Northern Meeting. - Comprend plusieurs index et une bibliographie.
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: Two of the most distinguished French members of the Annales school are represented in this volume - Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - the core of which is the debate on the Price Revolution of the sixteenth century dealt with by Cipolla, Chabert, Hoszowski and Verlinden as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians should not be narrow specialists but should learn from their colleagues in the social sciences.
Two of the most distinguished French members of the Annales school are represented in this volume - Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - the core of which is the debate on the Price Revolution of the sixteenth century dealt with by Cipolla, Chabert, Hoszowski and Verlinden.
Within the volume, all the contributions are oriented towards Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and all are concerned with long-term changes, and with the relation between economic growth and social change. It includes articles on the European movement of expansion discussed by Malowist and the activities of the Hungarian nobles as entrepreneurs discussed by Pach, and two articles on wider issues: Le Roy Ladurie on the history of climate, and Braudel, summing up the Annales programme, on the relation between history and the social sciences. This classic text was first published in 1972.
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01 Jan 1972
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of economic history as a social science, and the role of history in the development of modern economic history, and discuss the relationship between economic history and economic theory.
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. The study of Economic History, W.J. Ashley (Harvard, 1893) 2. The position and prospects of the study of Economic History, L.L. Price (Oxford, 1908) 3. The aims of Economic History, George Unwin (Edinburgh, 1908) 4. The study of Economic History, J.H. Clapham (Cambridge, 1929) 5. The study of Economic History, G.N. Clark (Oxford, 1932) 6. The study of Economic History, R.H. Tawney (L.S.E., 1932) 7. On medieval history as a social study, Eileen Power ( L.S.E., 1933) 8. The historical method in social science, M.M. Postan (Cambridge, 1939) 9. Economic History at Oxford, W.K. Hancock (Oxford, 1946) 10. The relation of Economic History to economic theory, T.S. Ashton (L.S.E., 1946) 11. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the Dark Ages in English Economic History?, F.J. Fisher (L.S.E., 1956) 12. The study of modern Economic History, W. Ashworth (Bristol, 1958) 13. Progress and the individual in Economic History, A.J. Youngson (Edinburgh, 1959) 14. The place of Economic History in historical studies, J.D. Chambers (Nottingham, 1960) 15. Time and place, M.W. Beresford (Leeds, 1960) 16. The historian's profession, S.G.E. Lythe (Strathclyde, 1963) 17. Economic History - A science of society?, Sidney Pollard (Sheffield, 1964) 18. History and the social sciences, Ralph Davis (Leicester, 1965) 19. Economic growth: the economic and social historian's dilemma, A.W. Coats (Nottingham, 1966) 20. Economic History as a social science, W.A. Cole (Swansea, 1967) 21. Living with the neighbours: the role of Economic History, Peter Mathias (Oxford, 1970) Index
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01 Jan 1972
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TL;DR: Social history is defined as the study of changes in the ways people relate to each other and perceive those relations as mentioned in this paper, and it is frequently closely related to economic history because social groups can often be best defined in economic terms.
Abstract: The term “social history” has not generally been used by historians of Africa. We all read anthropology, but until recently most anthropologists working in Africa have eschewed the time dimension, while historians have often avoided social questions. If we believe with Benedetto Croce that all history is contemporary history (Theory and History of Historiography), that it is concerned with explaining the world we live in, then the social questions are too important to be consigned to another discipline. In discussing African social history, I am not trying to create a new subfield, nor do I expect to review all of the disparate work that can be labelled social history. Instead, I hope simply to comment on certain questions which have been studied or can be studied more fruitfully. Social history can be defined as the study of changes in the ways people relate to each other and perceive those relations. It is frequently closely related to economic history because social groups can often be best defined in economic terms. The social historian differs from most sociologists in that he approaches social phenomena by studying how they evolved and in that he starts with the study of the particular event or community. He is usually more concerned with general statements than are his fellow historians--he might well talk about comparative history, and he is usually more conscious of the uniqueness of every historical event than the sociologist.