After the Black Death, Second Edition: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (Interdisciplinary Studies in History) (Paperback)

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In the flood of books in European social history, this superb synthesis will surely stand out. It is based on specialized studies of social changes across early modern Europe (but primarily in France) that led to the Industrial and the French revolutions. Structured around communitiesvillages, towns, and citiesit offers a mine of fresh information about elites, the middle classes, the poor, demographic trends, marriage patterns, education, crime, social rebellions, and sexuality. As in late medieval, so in early modern Western Europe, the nuclear family of four or five people was the general norm. College teachers, students, anyone interested in the social life of the modern West will appreciate this beautifully written, soundly researched, and highly knowledgeable book. Bennett D. Hill, St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, D.C. Kammen, Michael. A Machine That Would Go of Itself: the Constitution in American culture.
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Praise for the first edition:

"To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." -- History

"Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." -- Renaissance Quarterly

A work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George Huppert has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare of the age and thoroughly updated the bibliographical essay.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press; Second Edition edition (May 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253211808
• ISBN-13: 978-0253211804
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,501 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars European society before the modern age, June 18, 1998

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This review is from: After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (Interdisciplinary Studies in History) (Paperback)

Huppert provides the best quick introduction to how European society _really worked_ before the industrial age. He starts with the village and the family, then moves to cities, elites, and the way things (slowly, slooooowly) changed.

The book does a great job of combining big slow processes with enough local detail that the reader stays interested. Based mostly on France, but his view applies to all of Continental Europe from 1348 to about 1800.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but one sided, April 30, 2007

By	E. cohen "optional" (Seattle, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is a very enjoyable and colorful description of life from the 1400's to the 1600's. However, if your only knowledge of European history was this book, you would think that history ended in the 1600s with masses of starving naked people lining the roads of burnt villages, while distant cities were filled with no one but idle nobility with their servants and some street venders. Seems a bit too much class warfare too me. During the period of the 1300's to the 1600's there were tremdendous developments in the sciences, technologies, and humanities. This book discusses little of those. Still, it is an excellent description of the effects of changes in warfare on common people. It description on the motivations and benefits of all the societal changes I found to be better described by other books.