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A people's history is the history as the story of mass movements and of the outsiders. Individuals not included in the past in other type of writing about history are part of history-from-below theory's primary focus, which includes the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, the subaltern and the otherwise forgotten people.
Social history, often called "history from below", is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Historians who write social history are called social historians.
Georges Lefebvre (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləfɛvʁ]; 6 August 1874 – 28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". [1]
A People's History of the Civil War by David Williams; A People's History of the Vietnam War by Jonathan Neale; The Mexican Revolution: A People's History by Adolfo Gilly; Likewise, other books were inspired by the series: A People's History of Australia from 1788 to the Present edited by Verity Burgmann. A four-volume series that looks at ...
Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963).
Captain Swing: A Social History of the great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 is an example of George Rudé's focus on history "from below" and his study of common folk. In Captain Swing, Rudé examines the people of the 1830 agricultural uprising and the impacts of these events. The focus of this work is on the crowd and its history ...
He wrote more than 20 books, including a biography of John Adams that won the 1963 Bancroft Prize, and an eight-volume A People's History of the United States. After leaving the University of California at Santa Cruz, Smith and Lee held free, weekly, round-table lectures on American History at the Caffe Pergolessi in downtown Santa Cruz. The ...
Sheila Rowbotham FRSA [a] (born 27 February 1943) is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many notable books in the field of women's studies, including Hidden from History (1973), Beyond the Fragments (1979), A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999), as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s.