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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history; Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School; Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands; Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet; Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history
David Rothman (1937–2020) — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society. Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – social history of ancient India; Lloyd deMause (born 1931) – psychohistory; Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history
The written record agrees with the genetic evidence that such movements of people increased already before the end of Roman rule. The term "Saxon" only began to be used by Roman authors in the 4th century, initially to refer to Germanic raiders from north of the Frankish tribes who lived near the Rhine delta and on the ocean shores.
Finally the frontier provided a safety valve whereby discontented easterners could find their own lands. Historians now agree that few Eastern city people went to the frontier, but many farmers did so; before 1850 the America had few cities, which were mostly small, and the vast majority of people were rural.
Pages in category "Social historians" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Luisa Accati;
By 1066, most of the people of what is now England spoke Old English, and were considered English. Viking and Norman invasions changed the politics and culture of England significantly, but the overarching Anglo-Saxon identity evolved and remained dominant even after these major changes. [ 2 ]
The popular view is that new social history emerged in the 1960s with the publication of Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Writing in 1966 in The Times Literary Supplement, Thompson described his approach as "history from below" and explained that it had come from earlier developments within the French Annales School.
Ancient historians were very different from modern historians in terms of goals, documentation, sources, and methods. [5] For instance, chronological systems were not widely used, their sources were often absorbed (traceability of such sources usually disappeared), and the goal of an ancient work was often to create political or military paradigms.