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In Praise of Ordinary People

Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic

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  • © 2013

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  1. Margaret C. Jacob
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  2. Catherine Secretan
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Margaret Jacob, Catherine Secretan
      Pages 1-16

  4. The Capabilities of Ordinary People and the Birth of the Commercial and Industrial World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. “Ordinary” People and Philosophers in the Laboratories and Workshops of the Early Industrial Revolution

      • Larry Stewart
      Pages 95-122

    3. Accounting and Accountability in Dutch Civic Life

      • Jacob Soll
      Pages 123-138

  6. Forging the Individual

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Depression and Evangelicalism in the Family of Esther Tuke

      • Phyllis Mack
      Pages 239-256

    3. Self-Discipline and the Struggle for the Middle in Eighteenth-Century Britain

      • Matthew Kadane
      Pages 257-273

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 275-290
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The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.

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Luc Foisneau, Maison Française d'Oxford, UK Jacob Soll, University of Southern California, USA Frans Blom, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Henk Looijesteijn, International Institute of Social History, Netherlands Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Inger Leemans, VU University, Netherlands Maarten Prak, University of Utrecht, Netherlands Jesse Sadler, University of California Los Angeles, USA Dorothee Sturkenboom, independent scholar Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA

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