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===Women's history===

===Women's history===

[[Women's history]] exploded into prominence in the 1970s,<ref>See [http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html American Women's History: A Research Guide]</ref> and is now well represented in every geographical topic; increasingly it includes gender history.<ref>see [http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Gender-History-Blackwell-Companions/dp/1405149604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203919125&sr=8-1  Teresa A. Meade and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. ''A Companion to Gender History'' (2006)]</ref>  

[[Women's history]] exploded into prominence in the 1970s,<ref>See [http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html American Women's History: A Research Guide]</ref> and is now well represented in every geographical topic; increasingly it includes gender history.<ref>see [https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Gender-History-Blackwell-Companions/dp/1405149604/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203919125&sr=8-1  Teresa A. Meade and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds. ''A Companion to Gender History'' (2006)]</ref>  

===Family history===

===Family history===

==Rural history==

==Rural history==

[[Agricultural history]] handles the economic and technological dimensions, while [[Rural history]] handles the social dimension.  Burchardt (2007) evaluates the state of modern English rural history and identifies an "orthodox" school, focused on the economic history of agriculture. This historiography has made impressive progress in quantifying and explaining the output and productivity achievements of English farming since the "agricultural revolution."<ref>On British rural history see Jeremy Burchardt, "Agricultural History, Rural History, or Countryside History?"  ''Historical Journal'' 2007 50(2): 465-481. Issn: 0018-246x</ref> The celebratory style of the orthodox school was challenged by a dissident tradition emphasizing the social costs of agricultural progress, notably enclosure, which forced poor tenant farmers off the land. Recently, a new school, associated with the journal ''Rural History,'' has broken away from this narrative of agricultural change, elaborating a wider social history. The work of Alun Howkins has been pivotal in the recent historiography, in relation to these three traditions.<ref>Alun Howkins, ''The Death Rural England'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Death-Rural-England-Alun-Howkins/dp/041513885X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495548&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]</ref> Howkins, like his precursors, is constrained by an increasingly anachronistic equation of the countryside with agriculture. Geographers and sociologists have developed a concept of a "post-productivist" countryside, dominated by consumption and representation that may have something to offer historians, in conjunction with the well-established historiography of the "rural idyll."  

[[Agricultural history]] handles the economic and technological dimensions, while [[Rural history]] handles the social dimension.  Burchardt (2007) evaluates the state of modern English rural history and identifies an "orthodox" school, focused on the economic history of agriculture. This historiography has made impressive progress in quantifying and explaining the output and productivity achievements of English farming since the "agricultural revolution."<ref>On British rural history see Jeremy Burchardt, "Agricultural History, Rural History, or Countryside History?"  ''Historical Journal'' 2007 50(2): 465-481. Issn: 0018-246x</ref> The celebratory style of the orthodox school was challenged by a dissident tradition emphasizing the social costs of agricultural progress, notably enclosure, which forced poor tenant farmers off the land. Recently, a new school, associated with the journal ''Rural History,'' has broken away from this narrative of agricultural change, elaborating a wider social history. The work of Alun Howkins has been pivotal in the recent historiography, in relation to these three traditions.<ref>Alun Howkins, ''The Death Rural England'' (2003) [https://www.amazon.com/Death-Rural-England-Alun-Howkins/dp/041513885X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495548&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]</ref> Howkins, like his precursors, is constrained by an increasingly anachronistic equation of the countryside with agriculture. Geographers and sociologists have developed a concept of a "post-productivist" countryside, dominated by consumption and representation that may have something to offer historians, in conjunction with the well-established historiography of the "rural idyll."  

===France===

===France===

* Lloyd, Christopher.  ''Explanation in Social History.'' (1986). 375 pp.   

* Lloyd, Christopher.  ''Explanation in Social History.'' (1986). 375 pp.   

* Lorenz, Chris. "'Won't You Tell Me, Where Have All the Good Times Gone'? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Modernization Theory for History." ''Rethinking History'' 2006 10(2): 171-200. Issn: 1364-2529 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]

* Lorenz, Chris. "'Won't You Tell Me, Where Have All the Good Times Gone'? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Modernization Theory for History." ''Rethinking History'' 2006 10(2): 171-200. Issn: 1364-2529 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]]

* Mintz, Steven. ''Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood'' (2006). [http://www.amazon.com/Hucks-Raft-History-American-Childhood/dp/0674019989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495048&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Mintz, Steven. ''Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood'' (2006). [https://www.amazon.com/Hucks-Raft-History-American-Childhood/dp/0674019989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495048&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg. ''Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life'' (1989) [http://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Revolutions-Social-History-American/dp/002921291X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495146&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]  

* Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg. ''Domestic Revolutions: A Social History Of American Family Life'' (1989) [https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Revolutions-Social-History-American/dp/002921291X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208495146&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]  

* Palmer, Bryan D., and Todd McCallum, "Working-Class History" [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0008710 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008)]   

* Palmer, Bryan D., and Todd McCallum, "Working-Class History" [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0008710 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008)]   

* Pomeranz, Kenneth. "Social History and World History: from Daily Life to Patterns of Change." ''Journal of World History'' 2007 18(1): 69-98. Issn: 1045-6007 Fulltext: in [[History Cooperative]] and [[Project Muse]]

* Pomeranz, Kenneth. "Social History and World History: from Daily Life to Patterns of Change." ''Journal of World History'' 2007 18(1): 69-98. Issn: 1045-6007 Fulltext: in [[History Cooperative]] and [[Project Muse]]