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The chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers,
beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond
Europe in the early modern period / This book will appeal to all
those interested in the political systems of Early Modern Europe /
This book also covers numerous topics related to the building of
the 'Early Modern State', including standing armies, monetary and
financial policy, legal policy, as well as resistance and
opposition to these changes
This impressive collection offers the first systematic global and
comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350
years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton
production, and the global picture from pre-industrial times
through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first
part of the book is divided into twenty national studies on textile
production over the period 1650-2000. To make them useful tools for
international comparisons, each national overview is based on a
consistent framework that defines the topics and issues to be
treated in each chapter. The countries described have been selected
to included the major historic producers of woollen and cotton
fabrics, and the diversity of global experience, and include not
only European nations, but also Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt,
India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA. The second part
of the book consists of ten comparative papers on topics including
globalization and trade, organization of production, space,
identity, workplace, institutions, production relations, gender,
ethnicity and the textile firm. These are based on the national
overviews and additional literature, and will help apply current
interdisciplinary and cultural concerns to a subject traditionally
viewed largely through a social and economic history lens. Whilst
offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the
history of a particular country's textile industry, the true
strength of this project lies in its capacity of international
comparison. By providing global comparative studies of key textile
industries and workers, both geographically and thematically, this
book provides a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of a major
element of the world's economy. This allows historians to challenge
many of the received ideas about globalization, for instance,
highlighting how global competition for lower production costs is
by no means a uniquely modern issue, and has b
Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive
occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded
so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated
in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project
goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop
a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long
historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports
worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port
studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour,
their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers
and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter.
The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour,
patterns of strike action and involvement in political
organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and
descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of
investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies
which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the
port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring
themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the
rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various
approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several
configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future
research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most
sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international
history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this
essential reference work.
With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the
1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the
popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
This led to much debate on its future and function within the
historical discipline as a whole. Some critics declared it dead
altogether. Others have proposed a change of direction and a more
or less exclusive focus on images and texts. The most constructive
proposals have suggested that labour history in the past
concentrated too much on class and that other identities of working
people should be taken into account to a larger extent than they
had been previously, such as gender, religion, and ethnicity.
Although class as a social category is still as valid as it has
been before, the questions now to be asked are to what extent
non-class identities shape working people's lives and mentalities
and how these are linked with the class system. In this volume some
of the leading European historians of labour and the working
classes address these questions. Two non-European scholars comment
on their findings from an Indian, resp. American, point of view.
The volume is rounded off by a most useful bibliography of recent
studies in European labour history, class, gender, religion, and
ethnicity.
With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the
1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the
popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
This led to much debate on its future and function within the
historical discipline as a whole. Some critics declared it dead
altogether. Others have proposed a change of direction and a more
or less exclusive focus on images and texts. The most constructive
proposals have suggested that labour history in the past
concentrated too much on class and that other identities of working
people should be taken into account to a larger extent than they
had been previously, such as gender, religion, and ethnicity.
Although class as a social category is still as valid as it has
been before, the questions now to be asked are to what extent
non-class identities shape working people's lives and mentalities
and how these are linked with the class system. In this volume some
of the leading European historians of labour and the working
classes address these questions. Two non-European scholars comment
on their findings from an Indian, resp. American, point of view.
The volume is rounded off by a most useful bibliography of recent
studies in European labour history, class, gender, religion, and
ethnicity.
This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of "humble" petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favor or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians.
This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and
maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution
that began in the mid-1750s and continued until the 1840s. The
central theme of the volume is mutiny - its causes, frequency,
forms, patterns and outcomes - charting, linking and comparing
maritime insurrections in different oceans, on warships, merchant
vessels and convict ships. The contributions concentrate on the
mutineers themselves, their social composition, self-organisation,
objectives and ideas. Also included is unrest in port cities, sites
of international exchange between maritime and landed forms of
resistance. Sailors spent significant amounts of time in port,
sometimes connecting shipboard unrest and radical movements on land
in personal, political and social ways. The contributions cover the
age of revolution in its full geographic extent, including the
Atlantic with its wars and revolutions, but also the Indian and
Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea.
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