{"title":"Peter L. Larson, Rethinking the Great Transition: Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349–1660 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pages xvi + 240 + maps and figures 18 + tables 10, £75 hardback.","authors":"A. Brown","doi":"10.1017/S0268416022000248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"283 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41338632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Fox, Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England (London: University of London Press, 2022). Pages xiv + 254 + illustrations 4, £40 hardback, £25 paperback, & open access.","authors":"Jennifer Evans","doi":"10.1017/S0268416022000236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000236","url":null,"abstract":"of women, and their families, when birth. on male-authored medical understanding of this key life-cycle event. It the tendency to think about the moment of delivery as ‘ birth ’ . it is shown here that birth was a series of interconnected events and experiences: a ‘ pro-cess ’ that brought together formed and reformed kinship groups and communities in transient and imagined spaces. Fox ’ s use of family letters and surviving personal evokes the physical and emotional experience of for in an of shifting social and demographic change and of changing theories.ChapterOne physicality of birth. s at of of labour substantiates might that, for the travail ’ derived to describe birth. Women relied instead on ‘ groaning ’ and ‘ grumbling ’ , accentuated both the physical and audible nature of","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49329107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age as a yardstick for political citizenship Voting age and eligibility age in Sweden during the twentieth century","authors":"B. Sandin, Jonathan Josefsson","doi":"10.1017/S0268416022000212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000212","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article we analyse the changes in the age of voting and eligibility for office in Sweden during the twentieth century. We scrutinise arguments, actors, and contexts. Age proved to be an important yardstick for political citizenship and a source of political conflicts of importance for the development of democratic institutions which is largely neglected in earlier research on universal suffrage. Democratisation processes not only have led to the inclusion of new groups of citizens, but also exclusions. Our study demonstrates the importance of shifting understanding of young people, family formation, demographic shifts, intergenerational power balances and constitutional dilemmas.","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"257 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46541524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maíra Ines Vendrame, Power in the Village: Social Networks, Honor and Justice among Immigrant Families from Italy to Brazil (London: Routledge, 2020). Pages xv + 243. 12 B/W Illustrations. £120 hardback.","authors":"M. Borges","doi":"10.1017/s0268416022000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416022000042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"157 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49614222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CON volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0268416022000133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416022000133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":" ","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45520662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Olivette Otele, African Europeans: An Untold History (New York: Basic Books, 2021). Pages xi + 304. $30.00 hardback. $17.99 ebook.","authors":"Esther Liberman Cuenca","doi":"10.1017/s0268416022000030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416022000030","url":null,"abstract":"For a monograph covering a topic of such great magnitude – African communities in a variety of European countries and their colonies, with special consider-ation of how the intersections of gender, status, and race affected African people ’ s lives across many centuries – the relatively short length could have produced an intro-ductory work full of generalities. But the story that Otele follows is anything but. She humanises her subjects in a series of vignettes meant to draw out larger histories that inform and complicate our understanding of the heterogenous identities that African people embraced, rejected, or carefully negotiated within Europe. The cover of Lawyer, Scholar, Teacher and Activist depicts an image of Professor Roebuck ’ s books on the history of arbitration, from Ancient Greece to the eight-eenth century, positioning this Liber Amicorum as part of the series; a celebration of Derek Roebuck ’ s life, but also a transition from the work of an individual to the works of a collective of scholars (see 27, fn. 38). It offers vivid memories of friend-ships, relationships and shared experiences. At the same time, it is a triumph of original thinking and writing, and independent publishing; weaving a picture of Roebuck in four parts. Part One is a celebration of a life that reads like a novel. A husband, a friend, a mentor, a co-author, a teacher, a thinker, an activist, a cosmopolitan lawyer with a joy for life, and an arbitration legend. The reader is drawn into the world of a complex, attractive character; vignettes of marches, lunches, lectures, meetings, col-laborative projects, and writing sessions; pictures from around the world come together as fascinating narrative. Lucid, impassioned writing and skillful positioning turn sixty pages of text into what feels like a film rather than a compilation of abstract praises. A fascinating aspect of this Part is that it captures, without the sup-port of","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44124514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new perspective on the demographic transition: birth-baptism intervals in ten Spanish villages, 1830–1949","authors":"Francisco J. Marco-Gracia","doi":"10.1017/S0268416022000066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We analyse the evolution of birth-baptism intervals between 1830 and 1949 among children born into 815 Spanish families and relate the changes observed to developments in childhood mortality. Our results show that birth-baptism intervals in our study area increased rapidly after 1890, three decades after childhood mortality began to decline and a decade before fertility began to fall. We confirm that the families increasing the intervals between their children's births and baptisms after 1890 were those whose previous children had high rates of survival. We conclude that, in the last years of the nineteenth century, families were aware of the decline in child mortality and adjusted their behaviour in response.","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"127 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46240262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neil Kaplan and Robert Morgan (eds), Lawyer, Scholar, Teacher and Activist: A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Derek Roebuck (HOLO Books: Arbitration Press, 2021). Pages 560. £35 hardback.","authors":"Spyros M. Maniatis","doi":"10.1017/s0268416022000054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416022000054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"161 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46248862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the resilience of commons to resilience through commons. The peasant way of buffering shocks and crises","authors":"T. Soens, Maïka De Keyzer","doi":"10.1017/S026841602200008X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S026841602200008X","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate if and how commons helped peasant societies when confronted with uncertainty, shocks, and crises in this special issue. Peasants have been defined as primarily small-scale agricultural producers who control the means of production and who use these means directly to provide for their own subsistence. Their activities were often integrated into the (commodity) market economy, but not dependent on (factor) markets.1 If the (large) majority of households can be conceived as peasants, we can speak of peasant societies. For a long time, peasant societies were conceived as antagonistic to capitalism: the commercial farmer would eventually replace the peasant. However, from a world-historical perspective, peasant societies were not simply replaced by capitalist farming systems; they were gradually integrated in a globalised capitalist economy.2 As a result, even today a large part of the global population still qualifies as ‘peasants’. Even though the definition is quite clear, the persistence of peasant communities throughout the ages remains enigmatic. When exposed to extreme events, crises and shocks, peasants have been portrayed as both extremely vulnerable as well as highly resilient. In Poverty and Famines, Amartya Sen showed that peasant farmers were among the worst hit in the different famines under consideration.3 Yet according to Vander Ploeg, the very fact that some of the most hazardous regions in the world are dominated by peasants also indicates that they have the capacity to cope with shocks and hazards, while more commercial enterprises are pushed out.4 Rosset et al. give the example of Cuba, where peasant smallholders practicing agroecological farming and mutually cooperating bounced back much faster than large private or state-owned holdings after a hurricane, losing less of their harvest.5 These different outcomes are for a large","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47362910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: peasant resilience and the reproduction of common land rights","authors":"Hanne Cottyn, E. Vanhaute, Esther Beeckaert","doi":"10.1017/S0268416022000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416022000108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Common land rights are nowadays identified as a pivotal action terrain for building sustainable development and climate resilience. This often leads to an idealisation of these common land systems and the people that manage them. This article presents a research strategy that elaborates on the notion of frontiers to unpack peasant resilience and common land rights as the outcome of a long history of peasant adaptation, resistance and self-reinvention within a globalising world. It presents an empirical comparative analysis of common land rights in European and Andean peasant communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":45309,"journal":{"name":"Continuity and Change","volume":"37 1","pages":"43 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43051209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}