The Social Dimension of Western Civilization, Volume 2

by Golden, Richard M.

• ISBN13: 9780312397371
• ISBN10: 0312397372
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-08
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Combining the latest scholarship with classic pieces,The Social Dimension of Western Civilization's48 secondary-source readings hook students with the fascinating and often surprising details of how everyday Western people worked, ate, played, celebrated, worshipped, married, procreated, fought, persecuted, behaved, and died.

Author Biography

RICHARD M. GOLDEN is professor of history and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas. He is author of The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curés and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662 (1981); editor of The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina (1988); and editor of Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France (1982). He coedited, with Thomas Kuehn, Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History (1993). He is currently editing the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition,to be published in 2003.

Table of Contents

Preface
Topical Table of Contents
Introduction
Hemispheres Colliding: Eurasian and Native American Societies, 1492	p. 4
The Spanish Inquisition and the People	p. 19
Nuns, Wives, and Mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany	p. 38
The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France	p. 53
The Body, Appearance, and Sexuality	p. 66
The Witch-Figure and the Sabbat	p. 87
Material Conditions of Family Life	p. 104
Rituals of Execution in Early Modern Germany	p. 120
Poverty and Marginality in the Early Modern City	p. 132
Death's Arbitrary Empire	p. 148
The Great Cat Massacre	p. 160
Women and Work	p. 173
Political Culture and Female Sociability in the French Revolution	p. 186
Infanticide in European History	p. 202
The Struggle for the Breeches: Plebian Marriage	p. 221
Factory Discipline in the Industrial Revolution	p. 237
The Potato in Ireland	p. 251
Letter Writing and the Victorian Bourgeois	p. 263
The Challenge of Cholera in Hamburg	p. 275
The East European Gypsies in the Imperial Age	p. 291
The End of the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 302
Italian Women in the Nineteenth Century	p. 315
Popular Justice, Community, and Culture among the Russian Peasantry, 1870-1900	p. 324
A Woman's World: Department Stores and the Evolution of Women's Employment, 1870-1920	p. 338
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916	p. 354
Inflation in Weimar Germany	p. 368
Daily Life in Moscow, 1921-1929	p. 380
German Killers in the Holocaust: Behavior and Motivation	p. 396
Packaging Pleasures: Club Mediterranee and French Consumer Culture, 1950-1968	p. 411
The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model	p. 423
Ethnic Cleansing in the Wars of Yugoslav Succession	p. 440
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