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Studies the cultural, economic, political, and religious changes in 18th century European society that resulted from population growth, agricultural and industrial revolutions, and the Enlightenment
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Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, especially the innovations of French social history, Isser Woloch paints an unusually rich and detailed portrait of eighteenth-century European life and society. Among the new topics he covers are the family economy of the poor, popular culture and the circulation of books, changing patterns of crime and punishment, and the social history of military and religious institutions.
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