scholarly journals Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros (Historia Agraria, 75)

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 201-261
Author(s):  
Shawn Van Ausdal ◽  
Jackeline Velazco Portocarrero ◽  
Christine Fertig ◽  
Ricard Soto ◽  
Gabriel Jover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Impact ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Britain ◽  
Siglo Xix

Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros José Roberto Álvarez Múnera:Mercado, ganado y territorio: Haciendas y hacendados en el Oriente y el Magdalena Medio antioqueños (1920-1960) Shawn Van Ausdal Germán Carrillo García: Desarrollo rural y cooperativismo agrario en Ecuador: Trayectorias históricas de los pequeños productores en la economía global Jackeline Velazco Portocarrero John Broad & Anton Schuurman (Eds.):Wealth and Poverty in European Rural Societies from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Christine Fertig Eric L. Jones: Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact Ricard Soto Richard W. Hoyle (Ed.): Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain. The Farmer in England, 1650-1980 Gabriel Jover Teresa María Ortega (Ed.): Jornaleras, campesinas y agricultoras: La historia agraria desde una perspectiva de género Inmaculada Villa Salvador Calatayud, Jesús Millán & María Cruz Romeo (Eds.): El Estado desde la sociedad: Espacios de poder en la España del siglo XIX Antonio Amarillo Ramírez Manuel de Paz: Fruta del paraíso: La aventura atlántica del plátano Belinda Rodríguez Arrocha Rolf Kieβsling, Frank Konersmann, Werner Troβbach & Dorothee Rippmann: Grundzüge der Agrargeschichte. 1: Vom Spätmittelalter bis zum Dreiβigjährigen Krieg (1350-1650) Carolina Batet Reiner Prass, Stefan Brankensiek (Ed.) & Jürgen Schlumbohm: Grundzüge der Agrargeschichte. 2: Vom Dreiβigjährigen Krieg bis zum Beginn der Moderne (1650-1880) Jesús Millán Gunter Mahlerwein & Clemens Zimmermann (Ed.): Grundzüge der Agrargeschichte. 3: Die Moderne Gloria Sanz Lafuente Enric Vicedo: Pagesia, accés a la terra i desenvolupament històric: Els latifundis eclesiàstics a la Catalunya occidental plana (segles XVII-XX) Antònia Morey Tous Pere Bosch: La lluita per la terra: Solidaritats pageses i conflictivitat rural a la regió de Girona (1931-1936) Raimon Soler Pilar Díaz Sánchez: Vida de Antonio y Carmelita: La militancia jornalera en Andalucía (1950-2000) Carlos Gil Andrés Antonio Escobar, Romana Falcón & Martín Sánchez Rodríguez (Coords.): La desamortización civil desde perspectivas plurales Ángel Ramón del Valle

Towards a Marxist theory of European integration

1980 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cocks
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Early Modern Britain ◽  
The 1950S

The significance of the European Communities (EC) remains obscure. The reason is that orthodox integration literature is fundamentally ahistorical: it fails to give an adequate account of the roots of modern European integration. And however admirable the project might be in itself, we cannot rectify the failure simply by chronicling the admittedly much ignored origins of the EC in the 1950s. For the EC is systematically connected to earlier cases of integration in Europe. Only by understanding the evolution of these integrational forms—from early modern Britain, to nineteenth century Germany, to contemporary Europe—can one begin to make sense of the EC. In brief, one must seek to understand the “present as history,” a task that few writers on regional integration have yet attempted, and none with any success.

Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. By Keith Wrightson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 372. $35.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124-1125
Author(s):  
Craig Muldrew
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
English Society ◽  
History Of

For almost 20 years now, Professor Wrightson's book English Society 1580–1680 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1982) has probably been the most widely used text to introduce the social history of England in this period. But at the same time it is much more than this, in that it presents a powerful argument about change in religious belief, education, social hegemony, and concepts of order, all of which has provoked much scholarly debate. Now Wrightson has produced a volume on the economic history of Britain in the longer period from 1470–1750, which deserves to become as central and as widely read. Its arrival is doubly welcome because, since Christopher Clay's Economic Expansion and Social Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) went out of print some time ago, there has been no current text covering the economic history of early modern England or Britain. In part this unfortunate situation has reflected declining student interest, as economic history became identified with econometrics. But this lucid and engaging work should revive interest in a vitally important subject. As its title indicates, this is economic history with a human face, in which the main focus of analysis is always the social context and meaning of economic change to those whom it affected.

Melancholy and Mourning: Black Banquets and Funerary Feasts

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
jane levi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Funerary Rituals ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Early Modern Britain ◽  
Renaissance Italy

The article investigates a range of lavishly staged banquets evoking death and funerary rituals in history and fiction, comparing them with actual funerary practices involving food. Examples discussed range from the ancient world (Greece, Rome, Egypt) to Renaissance Italy, early modern Britain, and eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and France. By exploring the symbols of food and dining as entertainment and ritual, it contrasts the elaborate melancholy of the black banquet with the cathartic effectiveness of the funeral feast, and assesses the heightened impact of the borrowing of funerary symbols for entertainment in periods where such rites had a much more prominent role in daily life. It concludes that whereas the funeral feast has a constructive contribution to make to the process of mourning, the black banquet is little more than a gratifyingly macabre—if entertaining—indulgence.

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 665-667
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Art History ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Empire ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
Macroscopic Examination

Federico Etro of University of Florence and Elena Stepanova of St. Anna School, Pisa reviews “Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art” by Diana Seave Greenwald. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents case studies that combine the macroscopic examination typical of economic history with the tightly focused analyses common in art history, exploring industrialization, gender, and the history of empire in nineteenth-century art through a computational approach to exhibition documentation.”

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