social history

Presents descriptive essays on life in medieval Europe, covering fourteen topics including marriage, homes, clothing, knighthood, the plague, and Jewish persecution, and includes a chronology and a further reading list.

Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, this book humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical. Through engaging examples of how particular societies structure time, reach decisions about the future, make models and maps, systematize relationships, and create intriguing figures, Marcia Ascher demonstrates that traditional cultures have mathematical ideas that are far more substantial and sophisticated than is generally acknowledged. Malagasy divination rituals, for example, rely on complex algebraic algorithms. And some cultures use calendars far more abstract and elegant than our own. Ascher also shows that certain concepts assumed to be universal--that time is a single progression, for instance, or that equality is a static relationship--are not. The Basque notion of equivalence, for example, is a dynamic and temporal one not adequately captured by the familiar equal sign. Other ideas taken to be the exclusive province of professionally trained Western mathematicians are, in fact, shared by people in many societies. The ideas discussed come from geographically varied cultures, including the Borana and Malagasy of Africa, the Tongans and Marshall Islanders of Oceania, the Tamil of South India, the Basques of Western Europe, and the Balinese and Kodi of Indonesia.

Social history of the twentieth century, traces the influence of industrialization, religion, war, migration, education and advances in medicine on the daily life.

A collection of speeches, articles, and manifestoes reflecting the history of the decade of the 60s.

Examines the many changes that have occurred throughout the twentieth century in the way people live, discussing homes, transportation, work, fashion, eating habits, worship, leisure activities, medicine, morality, and technology.

Examines how those on the Home Front managed to survive the shortages, bombings, and rationing of World War Two, and describes the resistance movement, victory gardens, war factories, and relocation of children in England during the Blitz.

Text and illustrations show the work women did in Europe from the tenth to the fifteenth century, describing writers and poets, medical women, rulers of manors and monasteries, craftswomen, and illicit trades.

Presents a narrative of sports from the fall of Rome to the end of the Middle Ages.

Identifies some of the challenges and crises facing the world in the early twenty-first century, including AIDS, poverty pollution, and others, and features country comparisons, with maps, graphs, statistics, and photographs.

Text, illustrations, and primary source quotes provide an overview of the life of a typical lady of the manor in medieval civilization, discussing home life, children, clothes, hobbies, widowhood, and other related topics, and including a time line, a glossary, and a list of resources.