Tensions of Social History : Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective /: Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alessandro Stanziani.
• Authors: Stanziani, Alessandro
• Contents: IntroductionPart I: Societies in History: Eurocentrism and its Discontent1. The Quest of Universality: From the Enlightenment to Marxism2. Comparatism and Social History 3. Social Solidarity and Longue Duree Perspectives from Durkheim to the Annales SchoolPart 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, 1878-1891Part 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: History: theory & methods; Social & cultural history; General & world history; Globalization; History -- Historiography; History -- World; History -- Social History; History -- Civilization; Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350276840; 1350276847
• Related ISBNs: 9781350276826
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