This collection of essays addresses the social history of work, and in particular the values and ... more This collection of essays addresses the social history of work, and in particular the values and ideas that have accrued around work in the past. The cultural and ideological dimensions of work, aspects neglected in the past, are examined in depth.
of indicted violent assaults during the course of the century (256, 270). Kilday’s stress on the ... more of indicted violent assaults during the course of the century (256, 270). Kilday’s stress on the independent actions of women, and their refusal to be tied to predetermined roles, sums up the historical and political intentions of the volume: to bury the corpse of victimhood. But one can go too far in claiming a ‘long-standing’ and ‘active’ participation in public life for women (255) and in the process downplay the constraining aspects of eighteenth-century socio-economic and political cultures. It has to be remembered that murdering one’s husband was considered petty treason and the punishment was burning at the stake. Then there was the question of fornication, which resulted in mainly single women being found guilty and then humiliated and berated by ministers before their communities each Sunday for a month; no wonder infanticide rates were high. Added to this were the religious, moral and economic barriers to women’s advancement. It is true that some women did advance; that some found spaces in which to operate in a deeply patriarchal society we can only admire. But it remains the case that women of all classes were confined to a box which allowed a certain amount of movement but never to the point where they were in a position to open the box and challenge male authority in a profound manner. This volume brings together a great deal of research on women, particularly the middling and upper sorts, which will be of tremendous value to both practitioners and students of the eighteenth century. Given its interdisciplinary and its comparative aspects it will be of interest to a wide audience beyond Scotland. It is not the whole story but it does constitute a starting point, as the editors themselves recognize.
What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by ... more What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.
El objetivo de este articulo es promover la discusion sobre la situacion actual de la historia so... more El objetivo de este articulo es promover la discusion sobre la situacion actual de la historia social y proponer algunas vias de renovacion de los estudios historicos. En este sentido, se considera necesario no solo revisar algunos de los supuestos sobre los que se ha asentado dicha historia (como la separacion entre cultura y sociedad), sino abrirse a nuevas cuestiones y posibilidades. Entre estas, se estima de especial importancia la apertura teorica hacia el estudio del mundo material. Pues, como se esta poniendo de manifiesto en otras disciplinas, la relacion entre accion humana y cultura materiales un factor explicativo capital de los procesos historicos. Por tanto, la adopcion, por parte de la historia social, de un "giro material" aparece como una via primordial para su renovacion.
A mediados de la decada de 1990 escribi un articulo titulado "The end of social history?&quo... more A mediados de la decada de 1990 escribi un articulo titulado "The end of social history?".2 El signo de interrogacion al final del articulo parece que fue obviado entonces por muchos, que solo vieron en el articulo una critica decidida de las formas entonces dominantes de historia social y una afirmacion igual de decidida del "giro cultural", cuando tambien era una llamada a la revision del concepto de lo social y un apunte de las nuevas posibilidades que puede aportar a la propia historia social.3 No se trataba de una proclama para acabar con la historia social. Por una parte, como nueva entrega del giro cultural, ayudo a consolidar la creciente influencia de la historia cultural. Por otra, las reacciones que se produjeron en su momento, y posteriormente,4 dieron prueba de la defensa y el enquistamiento de formas preexistentes, y a mi juicio improductivas, de entender lo social en la historia social, esto es, lo social como ente objetivo absoluto, como entidad mas o menos diferenciada y autonoma por si misma.5 En Gran Bretana se podia apreciar especialmente en los modelos marxistas o de influencia marxista,6 o en el sentido mas generalizado y comun de "sociedad" como entidad subyacente transformadora, en gran parte derivado de la larga y poderosa tradicion liberalradical existente en Gran Bretana.7 Sin embargo, el cuadro es mucho mas complejo, y la
En La Encrucijada De La Ciencia Historica Hoy El Auge De La Historia Cultural Vi Conversaciones Internacionales De Historia Universidad De Navarra Pamplona 10 12 De Abril 1997 1998 Isbn 84 313 1632 2 Pags 171 189, 1998
The Social in Question With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the ... more The Social in Question With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers from across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this once foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the ...
... Ver tambien Anthony Easthope, "Romancing the Stone: history-writing and rhetoric", ... more ... Ver tambien Anthony Easthope, "Romancing the Stone: history-writing and rhetoric", Social History, XVIII, 2 (mayo 1993). 3 Por ejemplo, Lawrence Stone, "History and post-modernism", Past and Present, 131 (mayo 1991); "His-...
Historians are with some justice suspicious of the concepts of 'modernity' and 'po... more Historians are with some justice suspicious of the concepts of 'modernity' and 'post modernity'. These terms employ a history, yet in their use - most often by those who are not historians - they often seem curiously far from history as most of its academic practitioners would ...
As I am charged with a static reading of the labour process and a materialist conception of the c... more As I am charged with a static reading of the labour process and a materialist conception of the co-operation of labour and capital it seems necessary to amplify and clarify my argument, though I am somewhat bemused that such a construction has been put upon the points I raised.' ...
... I Patrick Joyce, 'The end of social history?', Social History, xx, I (January 1995)... more ... I Patrick Joyce, 'The end of social history?', Social History, xx, I (January 1995); Geoff Eley andKeith Nield, 'Starting over: the present, the post-modern and the moment of social history', Social History, xx, 3 (October I995). I should like to thank Patrick Curry for his comments on ...
This collection of essays addresses the social history of work, and in particular the values and ... more This collection of essays addresses the social history of work, and in particular the values and ideas that have accrued around work in the past. The cultural and ideological dimensions of work, aspects neglected in the past, are examined in depth.
of indicted violent assaults during the course of the century (256, 270). Kilday’s stress on the ... more of indicted violent assaults during the course of the century (256, 270). Kilday’s stress on the independent actions of women, and their refusal to be tied to predetermined roles, sums up the historical and political intentions of the volume: to bury the corpse of victimhood. But one can go too far in claiming a ‘long-standing’ and ‘active’ participation in public life for women (255) and in the process downplay the constraining aspects of eighteenth-century socio-economic and political cultures. It has to be remembered that murdering one’s husband was considered petty treason and the punishment was burning at the stake. Then there was the question of fornication, which resulted in mainly single women being found guilty and then humiliated and berated by ministers before their communities each Sunday for a month; no wonder infanticide rates were high. Added to this were the religious, moral and economic barriers to women’s advancement. It is true that some women did advance; that some found spaces in which to operate in a deeply patriarchal society we can only admire. But it remains the case that women of all classes were confined to a box which allowed a certain amount of movement but never to the point where they were in a position to open the box and challenge male authority in a profound manner. This volume brings together a great deal of research on women, particularly the middling and upper sorts, which will be of tremendous value to both practitioners and students of the eighteenth century. Given its interdisciplinary and its comparative aspects it will be of interest to a wide audience beyond Scotland. It is not the whole story but it does constitute a starting point, as the editors themselves recognize.
What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by ... more What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.
El objetivo de este articulo es promover la discusion sobre la situacion actual de la historia so... more El objetivo de este articulo es promover la discusion sobre la situacion actual de la historia social y proponer algunas vias de renovacion de los estudios historicos. En este sentido, se considera necesario no solo revisar algunos de los supuestos sobre los que se ha asentado dicha historia (como la separacion entre cultura y sociedad), sino abrirse a nuevas cuestiones y posibilidades. Entre estas, se estima de especial importancia la apertura teorica hacia el estudio del mundo material. Pues, como se esta poniendo de manifiesto en otras disciplinas, la relacion entre accion humana y cultura materiales un factor explicativo capital de los procesos historicos. Por tanto, la adopcion, por parte de la historia social, de un "giro material" aparece como una via primordial para su renovacion.
A mediados de la decada de 1990 escribi un articulo titulado "The end of social history?&quo... more A mediados de la decada de 1990 escribi un articulo titulado "The end of social history?".2 El signo de interrogacion al final del articulo parece que fue obviado entonces por muchos, que solo vieron en el articulo una critica decidida de las formas entonces dominantes de historia social y una afirmacion igual de decidida del "giro cultural", cuando tambien era una llamada a la revision del concepto de lo social y un apunte de las nuevas posibilidades que puede aportar a la propia historia social.3 No se trataba de una proclama para acabar con la historia social. Por una parte, como nueva entrega del giro cultural, ayudo a consolidar la creciente influencia de la historia cultural. Por otra, las reacciones que se produjeron en su momento, y posteriormente,4 dieron prueba de la defensa y el enquistamiento de formas preexistentes, y a mi juicio improductivas, de entender lo social en la historia social, esto es, lo social como ente objetivo absoluto, como entidad mas o menos diferenciada y autonoma por si misma.5 En Gran Bretana se podia apreciar especialmente en los modelos marxistas o de influencia marxista,6 o en el sentido mas generalizado y comun de "sociedad" como entidad subyacente transformadora, en gran parte derivado de la larga y poderosa tradicion liberalradical existente en Gran Bretana.7 Sin embargo, el cuadro es mucho mas complejo, y la
En La Encrucijada De La Ciencia Historica Hoy El Auge De La Historia Cultural Vi Conversaciones Internacionales De Historia Universidad De Navarra Pamplona 10 12 De Abril 1997 1998 Isbn 84 313 1632 2 Pags 171 189, 1998
The Social in Question With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the ... more The Social in Question With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers from across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this once foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the ...
... Ver tambien Anthony Easthope, "Romancing the Stone: history-writing and rhetoric", ... more ... Ver tambien Anthony Easthope, "Romancing the Stone: history-writing and rhetoric", Social History, XVIII, 2 (mayo 1993). 3 Por ejemplo, Lawrence Stone, "History and post-modernism", Past and Present, 131 (mayo 1991); "His-...
Historians are with some justice suspicious of the concepts of 'modernity' and 'po... more Historians are with some justice suspicious of the concepts of 'modernity' and 'post modernity'. These terms employ a history, yet in their use - most often by those who are not historians - they often seem curiously far from history as most of its academic practitioners would ...
As I am charged with a static reading of the labour process and a materialist conception of the c... more As I am charged with a static reading of the labour process and a materialist conception of the co-operation of labour and capital it seems necessary to amplify and clarify my argument, though I am somewhat bemused that such a construction has been put upon the points I raised.' ...
... I Patrick Joyce, 'The end of social history?', Social History, xx, I (January 1995)... more ... I Patrick Joyce, 'The end of social history?', Social History, xx, I (January 1995); Geoff Eley andKeith Nield, 'Starting over: the present, the post-modern and the moment of social history', Social History, xx, 3 (October I995). I should like to thank Patrick Curry for his comments on ...
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