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The societal changes in the peasantry in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Northern Spain are assessed. The extension of the power of lordship would lead to the revival of social power in villages.

A study that analyzes a photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand in Mexico from 1932 to 1934 during the social upheavals and military conflicts associated with the Mexican Revolution is illustrated. Through his photography he created a visual social history and provided a complex and at times stunning visual representations of those aspects of Mexico that he chose to photograph.

Selvy Thiruchandran (*) This paper makes an attempt to decipher the Communist Manifesto without the jargon of post modernism such as deconstruction de-centering or engaging in a counter memorializing analysis. [...]

In the course of his brief career, Raymond Andrews (1934-1991) published a cycle of three novels detailing the modern social history of the fictional Muskhogean County, Georgia. The biographical details [...]

Method and Madness The political, literary, and social history of Hungary at the turn of the century just past has been amply investigated in general works and in monographs. An [...]

The author suggests alternatives to Eley's arguments for ways to recapture some of the methodological virtues of social history while holding on to the insights of cultural history.

The chief subject matter of the book is the rise of social history in the 1960s and 1970s and the turn to cultural history in the course of the 1980s and 1990s. The author argues with Eley's explanation regarding the transition from social to cultural history, pointing to larger forces at play relating to transformations in the nature of capitalism, forces that are not easily overcome.

In this article the work of renowned British writer and activist Harriet Martineau like How to Observe Morals and Manners, Retrospect of Western Travel and other works and the way in which she took a keen interest in America from the time of her tour to the United States till her death is presented. Her importance to the period of American cultural and social history, mostly her influence on anti-slavery writing and her efforts to define a new kind of American exceptionalism is discussed.

Albert J. Schmidt, "Review Essay: Reform and Social Change" The books reviewed variously convey notions of reform and momentous social change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Law and lawyers, […]