Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

by Robert I. Rotberg (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame are several distinct subthemes: the process of industrialization in Europe and elsewhere; social mobility, class structures, and class differences; social unrest and the stresses of modernization and industrialization; economic and social equality and inequality and their markers; the role of women in modernization; and the origins of nationalism. The book's chapters discuss these issues from medieval times through the twentieth century, with particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Contributors
John Bohstedt, Gregory Clark, Theodore Evergates, Claudia Goldin, David Herlihy, Raymond Jonas, Michael Katz, Gloria Main, Franklin Mendels, Joel Mokyr, Gale Stokes, Louis Tilly, Dale Williams, E. A. Wrigley

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262681230
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	10/10/2000
Series:	Journal of Interdisciplinary History Readers
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert I. Rotberg is President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft, Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness in the Twenty-First Century, Transformative Political Leadership, and numerous other books.

Table of Contents

Gaining Their World: Modernization and Its Impact on Mobile and Aggrieved Peoples 1
Three Patterns of Social Mobility in Medieval History 19
The Aristocracy of Champagne in the Mid-Thirteenth Century: A Quantitative Description 45
The Political Foundations of Modern Economic Growth: England, 1540-1800 63
The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England 89
Social Mobility and Phases of Industrialization 125
Industrialization and Poverty in Ireland and the Netherlands 149
The Food Riot as a Form of Political Conflict in France 179
The Diffusion of Riots: The Patterns of 1766, 1795, and 1801 in Devonshire 215
Inequality in Early America: The Evidence from Probate Records of Massachusetts and Maryland 239
Peasants, Population, and Industry in France 263
Social Class in North American Urban History 287
The Changing Economic Role of Women: A Quantitative Approach 315
Cognition and the Function of Nationalism 343