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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.
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.
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 ...
The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) or Subaltern Studies Collective is a group of South Asian scholars interested in postcolonial and post-imperial societies. [1] The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who share many of their views and they are often considered to be "exemplary of postcolonial studies" and as one of the most influential movements in the field ...
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).
Cobb meticulously researched the Revolutionary era from a ground-level view sometimes described as "history from below". Cobb is best known for his multi-volume work The People's Armies (1961), a massive study of the composition and mentality of the Revolution's civilian armed forces. He was a prolific writer of essays from which he fashioned ...
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 ...