Reliving The Past

by Zunz, Olivier; Cohen, David William; Tilly, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780807841372
• ISBN10: 0807841374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area's development. They stress the need for a social history that connects individuals to major ideological, political, and economic transformations.

Author Biography

Olivier Zunz is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Retrieving European Lives	p. 11
The Synthesis of Social Change: Reflections on American Social History	p. 53
Between Global Process and Local Knowledge: An Inquiry into Early Latin American Social History, 1500-1900	p. 115
Doing Social History from Pim's Doorway	p. 191
Approaches to Modern Chinese Social History	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 297
Contributors	p. 325
Index	p. 327
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