Language, history and class
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Language, history and class
B. Blackwell, 1991
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [298]-303
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780631167327
Description
This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Penelope J.Corfield
- estates, degrees and sorts - changing perceptions of society in Tudor and Stuart England, Keigh Wrightson
- "hidalgo" and "pechero" - the language of "estates" and "classes" in early-modern Castile, I.A.A.Thompson
- definitions of nobility in 17th century France, Roger Mettam
- class by name and number in 18th-century Britain, Penelope J.Corfield
- the emergence of "Society" in 18th and 19th century Germany, James Van Horn Melton
- from gentlemen to the residuum - languages of social description in Victorian Britain, Geoffrey Crossick
- "To each a language of his own" language, culture and society in colonial India, David Washbrook
- the language of representation - towards a Muslim political order in 19th century India, Farzana Shaikh
- Chinese views of social classification, Philip A.Kuhn
- languages of power in the United States, Daniel T.Rodgers and Sean Wilentz
- language and interpretation - Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American activities, William Downes.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631167334
Description
This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Penelope J.Corfield
- estates, degrees and sorts - changing perceptions of society in Tudor and Stuart England, Keigh Wrightson
- "hidalgo" and "pechero" - the language of "estates" and "classes" in early-modern Castile, I.A.A.Thompson
- definitions of nobility in 17th century France, Roger Mettam
- class by name and munber in 18th-century Britain, Penelope J.Corfield
- the emergence of "Society" in 18th and 19th century Germany, James Van Horn Melton
- from gentlemen to the residuum - languages of social description in Victorian Britain, Geoffrey Crossick
- "To each a language of his own" language, culture and society in colonial India, David Washbrook
- the language of representation - towards a Muslim political order in 19th century India, Farzana Shaikh
- Chinese views of social classification, Philip A.Kuhn
- languages of power in the United States, Daniel T.Rodgers and Sean Wilentz
- language and interpretation - Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American activities, William Downes.
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