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Reprint. Originally published in The R.O.T.C. manual, [1922?] . ; Includes bibliographical references (p. ii). ; Mode of access: Internet.

The relationship between Australian political and social history has received little historiographical attention. Political history has been lauded or, more often, dismissed as traditional historical practice, while from the 1960s social history took its place as a catch‐all phrase for various "new" histories concerned with everyday life. This article examines the place of political and social history in the nascent Australian academic historical profession of the 1950s to the early 1970s, and then explores the impact of the new social history on academic political history. It will suggest that while there was only limited exchange before the late 1980s, in the last twenty years social history has contributed modestly to a reconstituted understanding of political history as part of lived experience."[…] I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels. But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention […]".1

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It is impossible to research the history of Pennsylvania — particularly its labor, industrial, and political history, and especially its Northeast history — without coming across seminal works by historians Ken and Bob Wolensky, two brothers for whom history has been a life-long labor of love. Here Ken and Bob offer their responses to questions posed by the editors of Pennsylvania History about their own interests, the uses of oral history, Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA), and the future of the discipline.

DEMOCRATIZATION AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, 1870-1938: EMERGENCE OF THE LEVIATHAN? / Jari Eloranta,Svetlozar Andreev,Pavel Osinsky -- SWEDISH REGIONAL GDP 1855-2000: ESTIMATIONS AND GENERAL TRENDS IN THE SWEDISH REGIONAL SYSTEM / Kerstin Enflo,Martin Henning,Lennart Schön -- POLITICAL ECONOMIC LIMITS TO THE FED'S GOAL OF A COMMON NATIONAL BANK MONEY: THE PAR CLEARING CONTROVERSY REVISITED / John James,David Weiman -- THE ANTHROPOMETRIC HISTORY OF NATIVE AMERICANS, c.1820-1890 / John Komlos,Leonard Carolson -- THE DISPERSION OF CUSTOMS TARIFFS IN FRANCE BETWEEN 1850 AND 1913: DISCRIMINATION IN TRADE POLICY / Becuwe Stéphane,Blancheton Bertrand

Research in Economic History is a refereed journal, specializing in economic history, in the form of a book. This volume contains Louis Cain and Brooks Kaiser, "A Century of Environmental Legislation"; Stefano Fenoaltea, "The Measurement of Production: Lessons from the Engineering Industry in Italy, 1911"; Farley Grubb, "Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Variation in Paper Monies Issued by the American Colonies from 1690 to 1775"; Oriol Sabate, "New Quantitative Estimates of Long-Term Military Spending in Spain, 1850-2009"; Eric Schneider, "Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston MA and the Ashford School, London, UK"; Ta-Chen Wang, "Entry, Competition and Terms of Credit in Early American Banking.

Historians of labor and working-class life face a powerful public amnesia; they seek to recover a past of struggle for economic security and dignity at work that is all too often obscured or even suppressed by consensual accounts of American history. Public historians necessarily work against similar lapses in popular memory. Historian Max Page has invoked the oppositional character of public history, which he asserts, "should by all rights be a radical undertaking. For, at its heart," Page continues, "public history is about bringing history to a wider public, about challenging citizens out of complacency about their past and creating spaces for forgotten stories to be told."