A Social History of Parastatal Employees in Southern Benin, 1989–1990: Contesting Decline and Unemployment During “Africa’s Second Democratization”
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DOI: 10.1017/s0147547919000267
Abstract: Abstract The huge parastatal sectors in postcolonial African societies interested sociologists in the 1970s and 1980s, but have never found a historical discussion – and the experience of change towards the democratization (eventually) has not… read more here.
Keywords: benin; unemployment; democratization; history ... See more keywords
Social History in Norway in the 1970s and Beyond: Evolution and Professionalisation
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DOI: 10.1017/s0960777318000632
Abstract: The rise of the new social history (‘sosialhistorie’ in Norwegian) in Norway from around 1970 was more of an evolution than a revolution. The social aspect of Norwegian history writing had been important for decades,… read more here.
Keywords: new social; professionalisation; history; history norway ... See more keywords
A social history of serious mental illness
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DOI: 10.1017/s1092852920001364
Abstract: Despite medical, technological, and humanitarian advances, the criminalization of those with serious mental illness continues. This is not an isolated phenomenon. The benefits of treatment reform and innovation are difficult to maintain or sometimes outright… read more here.
Keywords: mental illness; serious mental; social history; history serious ... See more keywords
A social history of educational studies and research
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DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2019.1577590
Abstract: children with autism. The second movement explores the way we perceive, ‘think’, conceive of education and its ‘natural’ limits and divisions, and thus who is worth schooling, in effect who counts as human and who… read more here.
Keywords: history educational; social history; educational studies; sensitivity ... See more keywords
The Royal Society, the making of ‘science’ and the social history of truth
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DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1417180
Abstract: The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, the so-called Royal Society, was founded in 1660. Charles II granted a royal charter in 1662 const... read more here.
Keywords: social history; society making; making science; science social ... See more keywords
A social history of educational studies and research, by Gary McCulloch and Steven Cowan
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DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2018.1474277
Abstract: historical ‘i’ and ‘t’. Thus readers may well come across the occasional assertion that they find questionable or wonder why this aspect of our language-learning history has been omitted. However, this is part of the… read more here.
Keywords: research gary; educational studies; history educational; studies research ... See more keywords
Irish vs. Yankees: a social history of the Boston schools
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DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2019.1619848
Abstract: Irish vs. Yankees, James W. Sanders explains, ‘is intended to be a social history of the conflict over education in Boston between the so-called native Bostonians, whom I have chosen to call the “Y... read more here.
Keywords: yankees social; history; social history; history boston ... See more keywords
Pre-Colonial South-East Africa: Sources and Prospects for Research in Economic and Social History
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DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2018.1508864
Abstract: In recent years, historical research on the pre-colonial period in the area between the Zambezi and Limpopo has almost ground to a standstill. A number of seminal works on the economic and social history of… read more here.
Keywords: south east; economic social; social history; pre colonial ... See more keywords
Going to Market: women, trade and social relations in early modern English towns, c.1550–1650
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2017.1320140
Abstract: its most cataclysmic changes: Alec Ryrie writes that the implementation and impact of the dissolution of the monasteries ‘remains weirdly under-researched’ (109), while Andy Wood notes that ‘[t]he social history of the English Revolution remains… read more here.
Keywords: social history; market women; history; early modern ... See more keywords
The peculiarities of South African history: Thompsonian social history and the limits of colonialism
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2020.1812300
Abstract: ABSTRACT From the late 1970s, South Africanist social history of broadly Thompsonian characteristics richly explicated the experiences of South Africa’s African population under ‘racial capitalism’. This article asks what value this scholarship might have in… read more here.
Keywords: social history; south african; history; colonialism ... See more keywords
Dutch in Seventeenth-Century Japan: A Social History
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DOI: 10.1080/03096564.2017.1279449
Abstract: The first Dutch ship arrived in Japan in 1600. In the next two and a half centuries, some 800 Dutch ships would follow and for most of this period the Dutch were the only Western… read more here.
Keywords: seventeenth century; social history; japan; dutch seventeenth ... See more keywords