Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930: 30 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 30)
Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002
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- Title
- Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930: 30 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 30)
- Author
- Reay, Barry
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521892228
- ISBN 13
- 9780521892223
- Item weight
- 499 grams
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'Microhistories is a considerable achievement; it deserves respect; and it should be required reading for historical demographers and social historians. It lives up to its billing on the dust jacket as 'a central contribution to the 'new rural history''.' Reviews in History
'an example of local history at its best ... Such combination of methods has almost never been attempted by other historians of England ... evocative, excellently written, resourceful and original ... It shows how very wide-ranging 'microhistory' is ... If historians really wish to understand historical developments they will need to take careful note of this book.' Journal of Economic History
'Fascinating ... a brilliant accessible work.' Journal of Historical Geography
'Fascinating.' Choice
'impressive and intellectually challenging ... This is a fine book, genuinely new in what it does and a model for future work ... it will mark rural social history for many years.' Rural History
'skilfully technically executed and beautifully written ... must be numbered among the very best studies with prime foci on the masses in the English countryside.' Southern History
'Over and over again, at key points in the text, Reay's sensitivity and the piercing directness of his oral sources create a positive feedback system in which the whole is much more than sum of its parts. Furthermore, some of the parts are wonderful. Reay's treatment of the demographic profile of social life in the Blean is magnificent ... Better than anything else I have read, this book shows social historians how quantitative measures can be - and should be - incorporated into their concerns with the recuperation of lived experiences ... English social historians will find it instructive to consider Microhistories alongside a re-reading of the relevant chapters from W. G. Hoskins' The Midland Peasant. It is a comparative exercise that shows Reay's achievement to its best effect. Since Hoskins' book is deservedly called a 'classic', I anticipate that Microhistories will be seen in the same way forty years after its publication. Could one give Reay's study higher praise?' Journal of Social History
'... an impressive and refreshing combination of cultural, demographic, economic and social history in which the particularities and complexities of the locality are used to challenge firmly entrenched historical opinions ... Reay's fascinating vindication of the potentials of micro-history establishes the centrality of his book in the 'new rural history'.' Social History
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