The academic kitchen: a social history of gender stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London (£45, 149 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Michael MacDonald, Professor of History at the University of Michigan. George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (£40, 370 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Roy Porter, Senior Lecturer in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome institute for the History of Medicine, London. The Asylum as Utopia (£40, 240 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Andrew Scull, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System by J. M. Charcot (£45, 438 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Ruth Harris, Fellow of Modern History at New College, Oxford. All four titles are published by Tavistock/Routledge, London, in a series of facsimile editions.

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The Conversion Curve Revisited

Islamisation ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417129.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 69-80

Author(s):

Richard W. Bulliet

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Quantitative Approach ◽

University Of California ◽

Personal Names ◽

Eastern Iran ◽

North Eastern ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Bell Shaped Curve ◽

Over Time

In 1970, I published ‘A Quantitative Approach to Medieval Muslim Biographical Dictionaries’ in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.1 Originally a part of my doctoral thesis, the article sought to derive fluctuations over time in traffic flows along the major caravan routes passing through Nishapur, a major city in north-eastern Iran, from the place names borne by the religious elite of that city during the first Islamic centuries. A second part of my submission was gently rejected by the editor. It dealt with a bell-shaped curve that traced the rise and fall in popularity of the personal names Muhammad, Ahmad, ʿAli, al-Hasan and al-Husain during the same period. Four years later, when I was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, I was still puzzling over the bell-shaped curve of overtly religious Islamic naming.

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Sprachgeschichte als Textsortengeschichte. Zur Linguistik der Beschwerde am Beispiel der "cahiers de doléances"

10.5771/9783465143567 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Sandra Issel-Dombert

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Collective Memory ◽

Social History ◽

Actual State ◽

Text Type ◽

Grassroots Movements ◽

Social Interests ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Language And Law

To this day, French politicians and grassroots movements refer to the cahiers de doléances of the Ancien Régime as a primordial democratic legitimation tool for self-expression, for the pooling of opinions and the negotiation of social interests. The precursor of the petition, it has entered collective memory as the "French recipe" of political participation from below. As a mouthpiece for democratic articulation, this text type not only documents the actual state of a society described by its authors, but also far-reaching visions of the future. It can thus be read equally as an indicator of the disposition prevalent in a society at a given time, but as a social history of France as well. Based on culture-oriented linguistics, this study traces the evolution of the cahiers de doléances from the beginning of their lore to its end. This study work was awarded the "Prix Germaine de Staël" as well as the advancement award "Language and Law" of the University of Regensburg.

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