| Description |
2 volumes ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
v. 1. The preindustrial millenia.--v. 2. The industrial centuries. |
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Volume 1: The preindustrial era. -- Part I: Common people in classical times -- 1. Slaves and laborers -- The slaves / Gustave Glotz -- Was Greek civilization based on slave labor? / Moses I. Finley -- Work and slavery / Peter A. Brunt -- 2. Exploitation begins at home -- Women, marriage and the family / Robert Flaceliere -- Marriage and the family in Athens / W.K. Lacey -- The Roman woman / Frederik Poulsen -- 3. Moments of leisure -- Popular festivals: Funeral rites, public games / Emile Mireaux -- Life and leisure / J.P.V.D. Balsdon -- Holidays and amusements / W. Warde Fowler -- Part II: Manors and manners in medieval times -- 4. Serfs and their masters -- The peasant bodo / Eileen Power -- Aristocracy and peasantry / Friedrich Heer -- Varieties of rural life -- John R. Hale -- 5. Women and their duties -- The medieval woman / Dorothy Margaret Stuart -- Family and personal relationships / John R. Hale -- The social status of women / Friedrich Heer -- 6. Towns and their dwellers -- Medieval London / Urban Tignet Holmes, Jr. -- Medieval university life / Letha Curtis Musgrave -- Home life in Florence / J. Lucas-Dubreton -- Urban types in Germany / Fritz Rorig -- Part III: Inertia and motion in early modern times -- 7. The peasant grinds on -- Rural labor in the west / C.B.A. Behrens -- Country life in Germany / Walter H. Bruford -- Serfdom in Russia / Jerome Blum -- 8. Growing towns and quiet villages -- The roads / John Crofts -- The village / Roger Hart -- The town / W.H. Lewis -- 9. People in public and in private -- Amusements and sports / Lilly C. Stone -- Marriage and morals / Edward MacLysaght -- Families and homes / Philippe Aries |
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Volume 2: The industrial centuries -- Part I: The agony of industrializing, 1750-1850 -- 1. The rural revolution -- Rural change in eighteenth-century England / Dorothy Marshall -- The impact of the revolution in rural France / Gwynn Lewis -- Reformers, rebels and abolitionists in Russia / Jerome Blum -- 2. The formation of a labor force -- The city riot of the eighteenth century / George Rude -- The laboring poor / Eric Hobsbawm -- The German working class in the 1840s -- 3. The cycle of life -- Life and death among the very poor / Olwen Hufton -- The lower orders in England / S.G. Checkland -- The social question / William L. Langer -- Part II. Acceleration and social conflict, 1850-1914 -- 4. Old and new social types -- The transformation of English society / Peter Laslett -- The adaptation to industrialization in Germany -- The Austrian "other half" / Arthur J. May -- The Russian peasant: From emancipation to Kolkhoz / Lazar Volin -- 5. Kinder, kuche, kirche -- Catholicism and marriage in Ireland / K.H. Connell -- Childhood, youth and education / Robert Cecil -- The conflict of moralities / Theodore Zeldin -- 6. Primitive and civilized rebels -- Partisan warfare in the heyday of imperialism / Lewis H. Gann -- The mafia as a social phenomenon / Eric Hobsbawm -- Collective violence in European perspective -- Part III. Brave new Europe: 1914 to the present -- 7. Mechanization and collectivization -- The slow death of the peasant / John Ardagh -- The peasantry of Eastern Europe / Hugh Seton-Watson -- Controls and tensions in Soviet agriculture / Merle Fainsod -- 8. Family life in an urbanized society -- Domestic life in Britain / Robert Graves and Alan Hodge -- Continuity and change in bourgeois France / Jesse R. Pitts -- The family in Germany / Richard Grunberger -- What the revolution brought to Russia / H. Kent Geiger -- 9 Teh cult of youth -- Young Germany / Walter Z. Laqueur -- English youth movements / Paul Wilkinson -- French youth with a dusty answer / John Ardagh -- The Soviet model of the ideal youth / Ralph T. Fisher, Jr. -- Youth and politics in Czechoslovakia / Galia Golan |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: volume 1, pages 298-300; volume 2, pages 395-397. |
| Subject |
Social history.
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| Added Author |
Deák, István, compilor.
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| ISBN |
0132935635 |
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9780132935630 |
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