Peter Laslett

The World We Have Lost

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and remains as fresh and exhilarating today as upon its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Kevin Schà  rer.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780367705329
• ISBN-10: 036770532X
• Artikelnr.: 60935898

Autorenporträt

Peter Laslett (1915-2001) was a Life Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A leading historian of his generation, he was one of the founders of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. A passionate advocate for using radio and television to help history reach a wider audience, he worked as a BBC radio producer and ran a series of programmes on Anglia Television, the 'Dawn University'. With the sociologist Michael Young he also helped establish the Open University in 1969.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Kevin Schürer Introduction 1.
English society before and after the coming of industry 2. A one-class
society 3. The village community 4. Misbeliefs about our ancestors 5.
Births, marriages and deaths 6. Did the peasants really starve? 7. Personal
discipline and social survival 8. Social change and revolution in the
traditional world 9. The pattern of authority and our political heritage
10. The politics of exclusion and the rule of an élite 11. After the
transformation 12. Understanding ourselves in time General Note List of
Authorities Index