Author: Rotberg, Robert I.; editor:
Title: Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, (4), 360 pp.. Minor rubbing. Some light staining to front cover. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: R.I. Rotberg "Gaining Their World: Modernization & Its Impact on Mobile & Aggrieved Peoples"; D. Herlihy " Three Patterns of Social Mobility in Medieval History"; T. Evergates "The Aristocracy of Champagne in the Mid-13th Century: A Quantitative Description"; G. Clark "The Poitical Foundations of Modern Economic Growth:England, 1540-1800"; E.A. Wrigley "The Process of Modernization & the Industrial Revolution in England"; F.F. Mendels "Social Mobility & Phases of Industrialization"; J. Mokyr "Industrialization & Poverty in Ireland & the Netherlands"; L.A. Tilly "The Food Riot as a Form of Political Conflict in France"; J. Bohstedt & D.E. Williams "The Diffusion of Riots: The Patterns of 1766, 1795 & 1801 in Devonshire"; G.L. Main "Inequality in Early America: The Evidence from Probate Records of Massachusetts & Maryland"; R.A Jonas "Peasants, Population & Industry in France"; M.B. Katz "Social Class in North American Urban History"; C. Goldin "The Changing Economic Role of Women: A Quantitative Approach"; G. Stokes " Cognition & the Function of Nationalism".

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Spocial Class, Mobility, Modernization, History, Historiography, Great Britain, United States, France