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A History of Historical Writing: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century (2nd ed. 1967), 678 pp.; A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676 pp.; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900; Woolf, D. R.
There had been a long practice beginning in the Roman Empire to the modern nation states of providing pension to those who had served in the military. [2]Cotton Mather, the 18th century New England Puritan minister and author, proposed that elderly people should be "pleased with the retirement which you are dismissed into".
English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066–1307), published in 1951 as the third volume for the Pelican History of England [1] English Justice between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter 1066–1215: the Jayne Lectures for 1963 : the Jayne Lectures were given to the American Philosophical Society.
The People's Republic of China adopted its constitution during the 5th National People's Congress on 4 December 1982, with further revisions about every five years: 1600 BC: The Shang dynasty is the earliest dynasty with known archaeological evidence India: 26 January 1950: De jure: Constitution of India: 15 August 1947: Independence from the ...
Infant mortality in the United Kingdom underwent a dramatic decline from 1700 to 2025. Good national statistics begin in 1837; before then historians use local studies. [5] In the early 18th century, infant mortality rates were extremely high: 1700-1749: The infant mortality rate in London was 342 deaths per 1,000 live births. [6]
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
In particular, early retirement options were added to Social Security benefits and IRS regulations were created that clearly defined tax policies and benefits to pensioners. [13] By the late 1960s, almost half of all employed persons in the United States had some form of pension. [14]
"A Historiographical Perspective on the Social History of Immigration to and Ethnicity in the United States," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly (2009) 60#1 pp 5–24. Kammen, Michael G, ed. The Past before us: Contemporary historical writing in the United States (1980), wide-ranging survey by leading scholars; online free; Kimball, Jeffrey.