France

This new and ground-breaking history ranges widely. Alongside coverage of more traditional themes of social history - class and class conflict, religion and anticlericalism, education and popular literacy - there are innovative chapters on crime and punishment, medicalisation, consumerism and gender. Incorporating much recent research, Roger Magraw draws both upon valuable insights derived from the new social history of the 1960s and upon more recent approaches suggested by gender history, cultural anthropology and the linguistic turn. Each chapter contains a very extensive, up-to-date bibliography to direct students towards further reading.