Affluence and Authority provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.
This clear and accessible guide to the controversial course of modern German history offers a series of intellectually innovative and stimulating essays that address key issues and debates, providing both chronological coverage and a thematic approach to modern German politics, economy, society, and culture.
All too often the social history of the Middle Ages has been explored as an adjunct to high politics. This new study focuses on the medieval era’s often overlooked ordinary men and women, for whom the politics of the manor, the vill, or the borough were often far more real and pressing. Medieval England explores the various structures of society—household, family, parish or manor—and considers the ways in which ages, gender, and maritial status shaped everday life.