Social Dimension of Western Civilization, Volume 1: Readings to the Seventeenth Century
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Combining the latest scholarship with classic pieces, The Social Dimension of Western Civilization's48 secondary-source readings hook students with the fascinating and often surprising details of how everyday Western people worked, ate, played, celebrated, worshipped, married, procreated, fought, persecuted, behaved, and died.
PrefaceTopical Table of ContentsIntroductionHemispheres Colliding: Eurasian and Native American Societies, 14924The Spanish Inquisition and the People19Nuns, Wives, and Mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany38The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France53The Body, Appearance, and Sexuality66The Witch-Figure and the Sabbat87Material Conditions of Family Life104Rituals of Execution in Early Modern Germany120Poverty and Marginality in the Early Modern City132Death's Arbitrary Empire148The Great Cat Massacre160Women and Work173Political Culture and Female Sociability in the French Revolution186Infanticide in European History202The Struggle for the Breeches: Plebian Marriage221Factory Discipline in the Industrial Revolution237The Potato in Ireland251Letter Writing and the Victorian Bourgeois263The Challenge of Cholera in Hamburg275The East European Gypsies in the Imperial Age291The End of the Atlantic Slave Trade302Italian Women in the Nineteenth Century315Popular Justice, Community, and Culture among the Russian Peasantry, 1870-1900324A Woman's World: Department Stores and the Evolution of Women's Employment, 1870-1920338The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916354Inflation in Weimar Germany368Daily Life in Moscow, 1921-1929380German Killers in the Holocaust: Behavior and Motivation396Packaging Pleasures: Club Mediterranee and French Consumer Culture, 1950-1968411The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model423Ethnic Cleansing in the Wars of Yugoslav Succession440
