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social history

Branch of history that emphasizes social structures and the interaction of different groups in society rather than affairs of state. An outgrowth of economic history, it expanded as a discipline in the 1960s. It initially focused on disenfranchised social groups but later began to focus more attention on the middle and upper classes. As a field, it often borders on economic history on the one hand and on sociology and ethnology on the other.
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First, recent historians, informed by the quantitative social histories of the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly have gravitated toward the more qualitative methodologies and approaches of what was once called the "new cultural history.
Women, gender, families, and households in the southern colonies by Kierner, Cynthia A. / Journal of Southern History
The centrality of slavery affects not only the reconstruction of the social histories of the emerging churches but also theological and ideological analyses of Christian rhetoric.
Christians and slavery by Maxwell, William W. / Cross Currents
Chapters scrutinize how the social histories of emerging Christian churches had their rhetoric affected by the influence of slavery, the life experiences of slaves and what it meant to be a slave in the first Christian centuries.
Slavery in Early Christianity by The Bookwatch
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