Author : Teodor Shanin
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Historical study of the political sociology of peasantry (the self employed rural worker class) in Russia from 1910 to 1925 - examines the major problems, strains and alternatives facing Russia and the position of the peasantry in Russian society, and covers rural area social structures, the socio-economic differentiation and the social mobility of the peasant family, peasant movements, etc. Bibliography pp. 228 to2238, references and statistical tables.
Author : Hylke Speerstra
Publisher : Mokeham Publishing Incorporated
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780991998128
Cruel Paradise deftly weaves together the firsthand stories of men and women who emigrated from the Netherlands throughout the twentieth century. Hylke Speerstra interviewed transplanted Netherlanders in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for this book, which vividly recounts the trials and successes of these emigrants.
Author : Geert Mak
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Jorwerd is a small village in Friesland in the Netherlands. Geert Mak was born in Friesland and he returned to his roots to explore the 'silent revolution' that has taken place in Jorwerd and other villages like it in the years since the Second World War. The village is a form of social organisation that has lasted at least 2000 years yet it has started, slowly but inexorably, to disappear. Recent studies have shown that, by the year 2025, two thirds of the world's population will live in cities and towns. Geert Mak lived in Jorwerd for six months, gathering the personal histories of Jorwerters past and present. By interweaving their lives with the wider history of Europe, Mak provides an unsentimental portrait of the pleasures and hardships of living in the country, while also making plain how rural life everywhere is under threat from the modern world.
Author : J. L. van Zanden
Publisher : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Recoge: Transformación de la agricultura en las provincias costeras, en el Sur y en el Este de los Países Bajos entre 1800 y 1880; la modernización de la agricultura entre 1880 y 1914; la estructura social en relación con dicha modernización.
Author : Michael Barbato
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Europe
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780074712146
Caring for the Dyingexplores the extraordinary experience of caring for a lovedone who is dying, looking at the practicalities of everyday and long-term care. Using true, poignant stories gleaned from his many years of experience in the medical profession, Michael Barbato broadens the reader's understanding of death and what it means to the many patients, family and friends he has cared for in his professional and personal life. The author approaches this confronting, sensitive subject with a unique, thoughtful understanding of the carer and of the cared for in this enlightening, insightful book.
Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : History
ISBN :
Writing Contemporary History brings together some of the world's most pre-eminent historians to discuss the core issues confronting students of contemporary history today. Tackling ten key questions of current historiographical debate, each chapter sets in parallel and in opposition the contributions of two scholars. Questions include: Does gender history have a future? When does colonial history end? What is cultural history now about? This volume takes to heart the central rationale of the Writing History series, namely to combine theoretical reflection with the practice of producing historical texts. It introduces the reader to a variety of important theoretical approaches in the field of contemporary history writing and asks how these approaches have shaped historical writing in this important sub-discipline. Writing Contemporary History an invaluable introduction to the central debates that have shaped the field of contemporary history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1937
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Robert Mill
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473386918
Hugh Robert Mill's tells the Exceptional life story of Sir. Ernest Shackleton. There are no simple words to describe Sir. Ernest Shackleton. He was a man with a unique, extraordinarily unique mind, to be able to lead his men in one of the most dismal situations ever. A situation that would have been easiest to buckle to self defeat and surrender; but he was a man that didn't believe in giving up. Shackleton and his men made it because he believed in them and they believed in him.
Author : Stephen Hobhouse
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Pamphlets
ISBN :
Author : João Capistrano de Abreu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1998-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0199938822
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion--with insightful social history. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes. Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English. Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History opens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.
