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A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per From Booklist Social history, as a specific discipline or method of research looking at human social behavior over the ages, has grown in prominence since the 1960s. This encyclopedia presents an overview of the field defining "the most characteristic features and issues" and "without pretending to cover each regional social history thoroughly, presents basic features of social history geographically defined." It therefore includes such entries as Chinese Gender Relations , Latin American Ethnicity , and Russian Women as well as the more general topics Hunting and Gathering , Mass Culture , Cleanliness , and Punishment and Prisons . Edited by Stearns, Heinz Professor of History at Carnegie-Mellon University and editor of the Journal of Social History , all entries were written by scholars at primarily American institutions. Arranged alphabetically, entries range from one-half p

Who reads Encyclopedia of Social History (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)?

Author

Peter N Stearns; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135583477

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science