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AbstractIn this essay I produce historical arguments for 'suspending belief in the hypothesis of discontinuity, by which I mean the conception that the real or alleged differences between economic regimes and historical periods are in some sense (never explicitly discussed) more fundamental to their historical interpretation than the factors which they share in common.Part Onechallenges the notion that the different economic epochs are each characterised by a predominant type of labour relation, e.g. the ancient world by slavery.Part Twolooks very rapidly at the work of some medieval historians to extract the general postulate that the agriculture of any given period is characterised by a complex and differentiated use of labour. Finally, in the concluding pages I take up sharecropping and permanent farm contracts, referring mainly to India. The logical next step, after an essay of this sort, would be to look at the issue of managerial control in agriculture but in this paper I've sedulously avoided this massive subject.

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00032.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article looks at a critical stage in the forcible anglicisation of Ireland. Scotland and Wales, and argues that the set of cultural images which provided the moral energy for English imperialism first emerged in the twelfth century, i.e. about four centuries earlier than is commonly supposed. By early twelfth century profound economic, social, military and cultural developments had so transformed England as to mean that the English and Celtic worlds were now sufficiently far apart for the differences between them to be visible to contemporaries, notably to William of Malmesbury, the first to articulate this 'significant otherness’ in terms of the classical contrast between civilisation and barbaris

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00033.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract:This paper compares British and French representations of caste in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a formative period in the development of sociology and social anthropology in the two countries. The concepts of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ in the two sociological traditions are examined with respect to their analyses of caste. The two discourses are also analyzed in relation to their respective colonial histories and national political cultures during this

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00034.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe perennial search for a way to bridge the gap between human experience (both past and present) and academic discourse has produced an impressive array of theoretical perspectives and research strategies. However, despite attempts to depict the relationship between the self and other, few have considered the impact of native scholarship on the construction of knowledge. This paper examines Mennonite and Jewish scholarly efforts to represent and/or invent their own particular traditions and proposes that their frequent appeals to particularistic sentiments, which often offend academic sensibilities, raise crucial questions and offer unique insights into historical and sociological analysis.

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00035.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper examines Waldensianism and Mormonism, two very different religious movements, separated by time, space, cultural, and economic conditions. The sources are a mixture of secondary and published primary sources, including church documents both in translation and the original language, and personal writings, such as diaries and letters. The treatment of these sources is not unusual, rather the contribution of this paper is a synthetic theoretical analysis of these movements in terms of the practical consequences of action.Both movements were coherent attempts to address contemporary social issues; neither was principally illogical nor irrational, nor comprised primarily of socially disconnected individuals. These movements were neither apolitical nor solely comprised of pure political action. Instead, both became political protest movements, in addition to being religious movements, because the symbolic content of the movement was interwoven with contemporary politics: the movements’ ideological critiques implicated the larger political structure which attempted to prevent ideological change. These religious struggles were processes, becoming political movements because ideological change implied political actio

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00036.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY