Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977
Walking Over Grandma
By Lawrence Stone
Growing Old in America
by David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press, 242 pp., $10.95
"Age and Authority in Early Modern England"
by Keith Thomas
Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol.LXII, 46 pp.
It is a truism that historians tend to ask questions about the past that are of direct concern to the societies in which they live. In the nineteenth century, the central issues were nation-building and constitutional law; in the early twentieth century, they were economic development and class relationships; today it is mentalité, that untranslatable French word meaning the way people regard the cosmos, themselves, and one another, and the values according to which they model their behavior toward each other.
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