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Social history

Index Social history

Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. [1]

97 relations: African-American history, Annales school, Asa Briggs, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Bielefeld School, Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson, Charles Tilly, Cultural hegemony, Cultural history, Cultural turn, Democracy Now!, Demographic transition, Demography, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, E. P. Thompson, EBSCO Industries, Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, End of communism in Hungary (1989), Environmental history, Eric Henry Monkkonen, Eric Hobsbawm, Ethnic history, Eugene Genovese, European Review of History, Fustat, G. M. Trevelyan, Genealogy, German Studies Review, Governmentality, Great man theory, Gustav von Schmoller, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Herbert Gutman, Historical revisionism, History, History Cooperative, History of agriculture, History of childhood, History of sociology, Huck's Raft, Intellectual history, Jürgen Kocka, Jewish history, Joan Kelly, Joan Wallach Scott, Journal of Social History, Karl Marx, Labor (journal), ..., Labor and Working-Class History Association, Labor history (discipline), Labor history of the United States, List of history journals, Living history, Louise A. Tilly, Lynn Hunt, Marc Bloch, Martin Broszat, Marxism, Marxist historiography, Max Weber, Merle Curti, Modernization theory, Natalie Zemon Davis, Nazism, New Left, Newburyport, Massachusetts, Olivier Zunz, Open-air museum, Oscar Handlin, Otto Hintze, People's history, Peter Stearns, Political history, Project MUSE, Ram Sharan Sharma, Rural history, Salo Wittmayer Baron, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Shelomo Dov Goitein, Social History (journal), Social mobility, Social Science History, Social Science History Association, Southern United States, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Stephan Thernstrom, Steven Mintz, The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848, The Journal of African American History, The Russian Review, Thorstein Veblen, Union (American Civil War), Urban history, Werner Sombart, Women's history. Expand index (47 more) »

African-American history

African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-Americans or Black Americans in the United States.

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Annales school

The Annales school is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history.

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Asa Briggs

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an English historian.

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Association for the Study of African American Life and History

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is an organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.

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Bielefeld School

The Bielefeld School is a group of German historians based originally at Bielefeld University who promote social history and political history using quantification and the methods of political science and sociology.

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Black History Month

Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month in the U.S., is an annual observance in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States.

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Carter G. Woodson

Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

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Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society.

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Cultural hegemony

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society—the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm; the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.

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Cultural history

Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience.

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Cultural turn

The cultural turn is a movement beginning in the early 1970s among scholars in the humanities and social sciences to make culture the focus of contemporary debates; it also describes a shift in emphasis toward meaning and away from a positivist epistemology.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Demographic transition

Demographic transition (DT) is the transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.

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E. P. Thompson

Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993), usually cited as E. P.

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EBSCO Industries

EBSCO Industries is an American company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (June 6, 1868 – September 14, 1941) was an American educator and a pioneer in the field of educational administration.

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie (born 19 July 1929) is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry.

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End of communism in Hungary (1989)

The Communist rule in the Hungarian People's Republic came to an end in 1989.

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Environmental history

Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa.

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Eric Henry Monkkonen

Eric Henry Monkkonen (August 17, 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri – May 30, 2005 in Culver City, California) was an American urban and social science historian who conducted authoritative studies on the history of crime as well as urban development.

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Eric Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism.

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Ethnic history

Ethnic history is a branch of social history that studies ethnic groups and immigrants.

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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.

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European Review of History

The European Review of History (French: Revue européenne d'histoire) is a peer-reviewed history journal.

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Fustat

Fustat (الفسطاط al-Fusţāţ), also Fostat, Al Fustat, Misr al-Fustat and Fustat-Misr, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule.

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G. M. Trevelyan

George Macaulay Trevelyan, (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962), was a British historian and academic.

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Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

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German Studies Review

German Studies Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal and an official publication of the German Studies Association that is published triannually.

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Governmentality

Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time.

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Great man theory

The great man theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes; highly influential individuals who, due to either their personal charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or political skill used their power in a way that had a decisive historical impact.

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Gustav von Schmoller

Gustav von Schmoller (24 June 1838 – 27 June 1917) was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler

Hans-Ulrich Wehler (September 11, 1931 – July 5, 2014) was a German historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany.

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Herbert Gutman

Herbert G. Gutman (1928 – July 21, 1985) was an American professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he wrote on slavery and labor history.

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Historical revisionism

In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of the historical record.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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History Cooperative

History Cooperative was an online database of scholarly history articles from leading journals.

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History of agriculture

The history of agriculture records the domestication of plants and animals and the development and dissemination of techniques for raising them productively.

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History of childhood

The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood, published by French historian Philippe Ariès in 1960.

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History of sociology

Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged primarily out of enlightenment thought, shortly after the French Revolution, as a positivist science of society.

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Huck's Raft

Huck's Raft is a history of American childhood and youth, written by Steven Mintz.

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Intellectual history

Intellectual history refers to the historiography of ideas and thinkers.

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Jürgen Kocka

Jürgen Kocka (born 19 April 1941, in Haindorf) is a German historian.

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Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their religion and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and cultures.

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Joan Kelly

Joan Kelly (March 29, 1928 – August 15, 1982) was a prominent American historian who wrote on the Italian Renaissance, specifically on Leon Battista Alberti.

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Joan Wallach Scott

Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941), is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history.

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Journal of Social History

The Journal of Social History, was founded in 1967 and has been edited since then by Peter Stearns.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Labor (journal)

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is a peer reviewed quarterly journal which publishes articles regarding the history of the labor movement in the United States.

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Labor and Working-Class History Association

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is a non-profit association of academics, educators, students, and labor movement and other activists that promotes research into and publication of materials on the history of the labor movement in North and South America.

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Labor history (discipline)

Labor history or labour history is a sub-discipline of social history which specialises on the history of the working classes and the labor movement.

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Labor history of the United States

The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States.

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List of history journals

This list of history journals presents representative academic journals pertaining to the field of history and historiography.

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Living history

Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time.

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Louise A. Tilly

Louise Audino Tilly (born December 13, 1930, Orange, New Jersey) is a historian known for utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to her scholarly work, fusing sociolology with historical research.

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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Marc Bloch

Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history.

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Martin Broszat

Martin Broszat (14 August 1926 – 14 October 1989) was a German historian specializing in modern German social history whose work has been described by The Encyclopedia of Historians as indispensable for any serious study of Nazi Germany.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Marxist historiography

Marxist historiography, or historical materialist historiography, is a school of historiography influenced by Marxism.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist.

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Merle Curti

Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March 9, 1996) was a leading American historian, who taught many graduate students at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, and was a leader in developing the fields of social history and intellectual history.

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Modernization theory

Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies.

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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis, (born 8 November 1928) is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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Newburyport, Massachusetts

Newburyport is a small coastal, scenic, and historic city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston.

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Olivier Zunz

Olivier Zunz (born 1946) is a social historian, and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia, known for his work on Twentieth Century history of the American urban society and the development of modern philanthropy.

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Open-air museum

An open-air museum (or open air museum) is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors.

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Oscar Handlin

Oscar Handlin (September 29, 1915 – September 20, 2011) was an American historian.

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Otto Hintze

Otto Hintze (August 27, 1861 – April 25, 1940) was a German historian of public administration.

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People's history

A people's history, or history from below, is a type of historical narrative which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than leaders.

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Peter Stearns

Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost, from January 1, 2000 to July 2014.

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Political history

Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders.

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Project MUSE

Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books.

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Ram Sharan Sharma

Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011), commonly referred to as R. S. Sharma, was an eminent historian and academic of Ancient and early Medieval India.

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Rural history

Rural history is an interdisciplinary field of historical research which focuses on the history of rural societies.

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Salo Wittmayer Baron

Salo Wittmayer Baron (May 26, 1895 – November 25, 1989) was a Polish-born American historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century".

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941) is an Australian historian.

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Shelomo Dov Goitein

Shelomo Dov Goitein (April 3, 1900 – February 6, 1985) was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages, and particularly on the Cairo Geniza.

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Social History (journal)

Social History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social history published by Routledge.

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Social mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.

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Social Science History

Social Science History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal.

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Social Science History Association

The Social Science History Association, formed in 1976, brings together scholars from numerous disciplines interested in social history.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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State Archive of the Russian Federation

The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) (Государственный архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ)) is a large Russian state archive managed by Rosarkhiv (The Federal Archival Agency of Russia), which preserves some official (mostly concerning activity of police) and personal (including archives of some Romanovs imperial family members from early 19th century to 1918) documents on history of the Russian Empire, official documents of the supreme national legislative and executive institutions of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), Soviet Russia as independent state (1917-1922) and as territorial entity of the USSR (1923-1991), Soviet Union (1922-1991), Russian Federation (since 1992) as well as many other sources.

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Stephan Thernstrom

Stephan Thernstrom (born November 5, 1934) is the Winthrop Research Professor of History at Harvard University.

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Steven Mintz

Steven Mintz (born 1953), is an American historian at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848

The Age of Revolution: Europe: 1789–1848 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962.

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The Journal of African American History

The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African American life and history.

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The Russian Review

The Russian Review is a major independent peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the Russian Federation, former Soviet Union and former Russian Empire.

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Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Torsten Bunde Veblen; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929), a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist, became famous as a witty critic of capitalism.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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Urban history

Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization.

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Werner Sombart

Werner Sombart (19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.

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Women's history

Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so.

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References

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