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This book covers the social and economic history of Ireland from the aftermath of the famine to the years leading up to Home Rule. It combines synthesis with new research into poverty, public health, religion and marginalisation, reproducing the voices and stories of the people and questioning much of the accepted wisdom of Irish historiography.

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Through a comprehensive case study of the twelfth-century Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, the author shows how a changing international system encourages or retards the development of social structures, thereby relating the Crusaders' experience to contemporary affairs. The Kingdom's social structure was influenced by intensive lslamic pressure on

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Explores the processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new republic that made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society.

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Ambassador Brucan provides the first social history of the remarkable transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Uprooted by the war, exposed to the full brunt of economic dislocation, and fearful of losing status in face of the growing might of big business and organized labor, the middle classes in Weimar Germany longed for a solution to their plight that neither the capitalism nor the socialism of their day could offer. This work examines the attempts of a

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'Social Disorder in Britain' is an important contribution to the study of the history of religion, social protest and the rise of revolutionary movements, and will be essential reading for students and researchers of British history as well as those interested in revolution more generally.

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This volume, together with its predeccessor (Ideas and Institutions, 1969), is an examinataion of the social and economic foreces that helped shape Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. The previous volume established the ideological and institutional framework; in Struggles and Accomplishments Mr. Hamerow discussess, within that framework, the fo

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This text takes a theoretical approach in viewing the social identity of early medieval Britain and Ireland as an intricate "warp and weft" in which "we-identities" are more than mere agglomerations of single threads or collectives of individual "self-identities", such as ethnicity or gender.

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This edited collection focuses on the problem of social justice, or, more particularly, how the demand for social justice was articulated and implemented in ancient civilizations, including, from east to west, the Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Israelite, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman.

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Stephen C. Poulson investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. This work covers the following social movements: the 1890-92 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-09 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the Nati...

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Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century. Orig

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When Hitler assumed power in 1933, he and other Nazis had firm ideas on what they called a racially pure "community of the people". They quickly took steps against those whom they wanted to isolate, deport, or destroy. These essays offer histories of the people branded as "social outsiders".

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Analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. This book argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament.

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Analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. This book argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament.

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This book rethinks the second half of the twentieth century in Colombia by putting subaltern sectors at the core of the narrative and examining their crucial role in shaping Colombian society. The author incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches.

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