It pays special attention to women, children, old age, workers, ethnic and racial groups and demographic patterns.
Among the subjects that would enrich such an understanding are family economies and the diversity of people's social lives.
The "new social history" exploded on the scene in the 1960s, quickly becoming one of the dominant styles of historiography in the U.S., Britain and Canada.
[1] Family history emerged as a separate field in the 1970s, with close ties to anthropology and sociology.
[8] Likewise Gwyn reports that gentlemen, merchants, bankers, colliery owners, shipowners, shipbuilders, and master mariners flourished.