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Language, History and Class
Penelope J. Corfield (Edited by), PJ Corfield (Author)
9780631167334, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 March 1991
332 pages
23 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.51 kg
This book is an investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves. It is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. The chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America. The author examines how political declarations and manifestos relate to the societies from which they emanated and for which they aimed to legislate. Words such as "liberty" and "equality" have to be understood in a limited sense in the French and American revolutions, but it would be impossible to understand these events without recourse to these resonant concepts. The essays in this book explore the difficulties and the possibilities in understanding language as historical evidence
Introduction: historians and language / P.J. Corfield Estates, degrees, and sorts: changing perceptions of society in Tudor and Stuart England / K. Wrightson Hidalgo and pechero: the language of 'estates' and 'classes' in early-modern Castile / I.A.A. Thompson Definitions of nobility in seventeenth-century France / R. Mettam Class by name and number in eithteenth-century Britain / P.J. Corfeild The emergence of 'society' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany / J.V. Melton From gentlemen to the residuum: languages of social description in Victorian Britain / G. Crossick 'To each a language of his own': language, culture, and society in colonial India / D. Washbrook The language of representation: towards a Muslim political order in nineteenth-century India / F. Shaikh Chinese views of social classification / P.A. Kuhn Languages of power in the United States / D.T. Rodgers and S. Wilentz Language and interpretation: Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities / W. Downes
Subject Areas: Language: reference & general [CB]
