Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Grenouilleau, Olivier, L'invention du travail. 2022:10 (Cerf, FR) <694-1356>
ISBN 978-2-204-14345-5 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) EUR 20.00 *

農村共同体の社会的トポグラフィ－17世紀イングランドにおける労働生活の光景
Hindle, Steve, The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England. 496 pp. 2023:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <694-1357>
ISBN 978-0-19-286846-6 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.

Tichelar, Michael, Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 296 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <694-1358>
ISBN 978-1-03-220639-4 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the largest London boroughs, Croydon, has always been a mixed residential suburb (mainly private but with some municipal housing), which has strongly influenced the nature of its political representation. It was never just an affluent middle-class suburb or 'bourgeoise utopia,' as suggested by traditional definitions of suburbia and in popular imagination. In economic terms it was also an industrial suburb after 1918. It was then transformed into a vibrant post-industrial service economy following rapid deindustrialisation and remarkable commercial and office redevelopment after 1960. In this respect Croydon is also an ex-industrial suburb, similar to many other outer London areas and other peripheral metropolitan areas. Croydon's civic identity as a previously independent town on the outskirts of London remains unresolved to this day, even as its political representatives seek to redefine the borough as a more independent 'Edge City.' Author Michael Tichelar examines this suburb by looking at the suburban development of London, the changing politics of Croydon and policy issues during the twentieth century. Labour in the Suburbs will be of interest to the general reader as well as students of modern British history with special interests in electoral sociology, political representation and suburbanisation. It provides a template against which to measure the process of suburbanisation in the UK and internationally.

Veauvy, Christiane, Experience et pensee: Saint-Simon, saint-simoniennes, saint-simonisme: naitre a des liens menaces de silence. 2022:10 (Geuthner, FR) <694-1359>
ISBN 978-2-7053-4102-2 paper ¥9,724.- (税込) EUR 40.00 *

Frick, Jean-Paul, Le concept d'organisation chez Saint-Simon. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste 48) 2022 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <694-153>
ISBN 978-2-406-13181-6 hard ¥21,392.- (税込) EUR 88.00 *
ISBN 978-2-406-13180-9 paper ¥11,911.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *