Tensions of social history : sources, data, actors and models in global perspective / Alessandro Stanziani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanziani, Alessandro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalisation.

Social Sciences--History.

Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape - and at least nominally to improve - people's lives both within and beyond the United States..

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Societies in History: Eurocentrism and its Discontent

1. The Quest of Universality: From the Enlightenment to Marxism

2. Comparatism and Social History

3. Social Solidarity and Longue Duree Perspectives from Durkheim to the Annales School

Part II: What is a Source? Archives, Memory and Contested Contextualities

4. Revolutionary Archives

5. Decolonization of Archives, Decolonization in the Archives

Part III: The Social Life of Data

6. Economic Statistics

7. Weather Forecasting in the Tropics: Science, Divination or both?

8. Data on Health, Animals and Human Beings: The Trichinosis Epidemic in France, 1878-1891

Part IV: Fragments of Social Worlds

9. What is a Worker? Slavery, Status and Contract in the Liberal Era

10. What is a Peasant? The Global History of 'Immobile People'

11. What is a Consumer? Identities in Food

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350294974

1350294977

9781350276833

1350276839

OCLC:

1353824378

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350294974 doi.