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Social History
Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life
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I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute soci
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― The Making of the English Working Class
― The Making of the English Working Class
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Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats.
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― Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
― Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
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