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Peter Laslett (1915–2001)

Teoksen The World We Have Lost: England before the Industrial Age tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

Philosophy, Politics and Society: Third Series (1956) — Toimittaja — 40 kappaletta
Philosophy, Politics and Society: Second Series (1962) — Toimittaja — 35 kappaletta
Philosophy, Politics and Society: Fourth Series (1972) — Toimittaja — 20 kappaletta
Debating deliberative democracy (2003) 16 kappaletta
Justice between age groups and generations (1992) — Toimittaja — 4 kappaletta

Associated Works

Two Treatises of Government (1689) — Johdanto, eräät painokset; Toimittaja, eräät painokset2,520 kappaletta
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962) — Avustaja — 141 kappaletta
Shaping Southern Society: The Colonial Experience (1976) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta

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This book is a social study of changes in English society before and after the industrial revolution.

Already in its third edition in 1983, it promises a lot (for example: "Misbeliefs about our ancestors")and is backed up by an impressive list of tables (for example: "Illegitimacy ratios in England, 1540s-1840s").

However, it's a hard read. There is much superfluous, flowery language and you can't help feeling that it is preaching to the initiated. On pg. 277, for example, we read : "From this flows an irreverent impatience with established conventions of the subject as it has been traditionally studied in our country".

So, this is a book that's a bit up itself. I guess that's fine if you like to contemplate issues of social history in fine and synthesised detail with fellow practitioners, but my view is that it has little to offer the curious, general reader.

Being generous, I would say that the book is of its time (it was first published in 1965), of its class and best suited to academic study.
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SunnyJim | Mar 23, 2016 |
Published in 1962, 1972 printing - Lots of GREAT writers, some of whom I remember from graduate school at Harvard.
 
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