Bernard Waites
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Waites |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Waites |
| SIGNATURE | WAITES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Popular Culture
In defence of historical realism
This article is a further response to an attack on conventional historiography by Keith Jenkins, published in Rethinking History in March 2008. An earlier response by Alexander Lyon Macfie defended conventional historiography simply in terms of ‘the recovery of meaning from dead text’. I argue that historical enquiry involves a richer methodological ‘mix’ than this: as well as interpreting their documentary sources, historians explain, compare, a…
Europe and the Americas
Though the ‘Great Discoveries’ of the late fifteenth century were part of a continuum of European exploration and colonisation stretching back several centuries, the colonial conquests of Spain and Portugal in the Americas constituted a great break in human history. The indigenous peoples — possibly numbering 100 million in 1492 (Lockhart and Schwartz, 1983, p. 36) — had been isolated for so long from the rest of the human gene pool that they had…
Europe and the Third World
Europe and the Third World An Introduction and Overview.- Europe and the Americas.- Europe and Asia, c.1500-1880.- Europe and Africa from the Slave Trade to the Colonial Conquest.- European Colonialism and Indigenous Society in Asia.- The Economic and Social Consequences of Modern Colonialism in Africa.- The Balance Sheet of Modern Colonialism.- The Political Economy of Decolonialism.- Europe and the Third World in Retrospect.- Index
Short notices
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth‐Century France (1991), xiv + 191 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, £26.95). B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in Eighteenth Century England: North Lincolnshire 1740–80 (1994), xv + 167 (University of Hull Press, Hull, £9.95). John Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth‐century Europe: Essays in Comparative History (1992), 336 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00, paperback £14.99). I…
Short Notices
Marjorie Keniston Mclntosh, A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620 (1991), xviii + 489 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £50.00). Suzanne Desan, Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (1990), xviii + 262 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, $33.50). Michael Knieriem (ed.),Die Herkunft des Friedrich Engels. Briefeaus der Verwandschaft 1791–1847 (1991), 829 (Schriften …
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access B. A. WAITES B. A. WAITES The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXVIII, January 1991, Pages 251-b–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXVIII.251-b Published: 01 January 1991
Short notices
Trevor Lummis, Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence (1987), (Hutchinson, £6.95). David Mayall, Gypsy‐travellers in Nineteenth‐century Society (1988), x+261 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00). David J. Diephouse, Pastors and Pluralism in Württemberg 1918–1933 (1987), xiv+393 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £31.00). Ian Kershaw, The ‘Hitler Myth’: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (1987), xii+297 (Clarendo…
A Class Society at War
A Class Society at War
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The effect of the First World War on class and status in England, 1910–20
The effect of the First World War on class and status in England, 1910–20
Brass Bands
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A Class Society at War
Short notices
Trevor Lummis, Listening to History: The Authenticity of Oral Evidence (1987), (Hutchinson, £6.95). David Mayall, Gypsy‐travellers in Nineteenth‐century Society (1988), x+261 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00). David J. Diephouse, Pastors and Pluralism in Württemberg 1918–1933 (1987), xiv+393 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £31.00). Ian Kershaw, The ‘Hitler Myth’: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (1987), xii+297 (Clarendo…
A Class Society at War
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access B. A. WAITES B. A. WAITES The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXVIII, January 1991, Pages 251-b–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXVIII.251-b Published: 01 January 1991
Short Notices
Marjorie Keniston Mclntosh, A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620 (1991), xviii + 489 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £50.00). Suzanne Desan, Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (1990), xviii + 262 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, $33.50). Michael Knieriem (ed.),Die Herkunft des Friedrich Engels. Briefeaus der Verwandschaft 1791–1847 (1991), 829 (Schriften …
Short notices
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth‐Century France (1991), xiv + 191 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, £26.95). B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in Eighteenth Century England: North Lincolnshire 1740–80 (1994), xv + 167 (University of Hull Press, Hull, £9.95). John Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth‐century Europe: Essays in Comparative History (1992), 336 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00, paperback £14.99). I…
Europe and the Americas
Though the ‘Great Discoveries’ of the late fifteenth century were part of a continuum of European exploration and colonisation stretching back several centuries, the colonial conquests of Spain and Portugal in the Americas constituted a great break in human history. The indigenous peoples — possibly numbering 100 million in 1492 (Lockhart and Schwartz, 1983, p. 36) — had been isolated for so long from the rest of the human gene pool that they had…
Europe and the Third World
Europe and the Third World An Introduction and Overview.- Europe and the Americas.- Europe and Asia, c.1500-1880.- Europe and Africa from the Slave Trade to the Colonial Conquest.- European Colonialism and Indigenous Society in Asia.- The Economic and Social Consequences of Modern Colonialism in Africa.- The Balance Sheet of Modern Colonialism.- The Political Economy of Decolonialism.- Europe and the Third World in Retrospect.- Index
In defence of historical realism
This article is a further response to an attack on conventional historiography by Keith Jenkins, published in Rethinking History in March 2008. An earlier response by Alexander Lyon Macfie defended conventional historiography simply in terms of ‘the recovery of meaning from dead text’. I argue that historical enquiry involves a richer methodological ‘mix’ than this: as well as interpreting their documentary sources, historians explain, compare, a…
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