Download or read book In Praise of Ordinary People written by M. Jacob and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of social history has still not given enough attention to the ways in which the perceptions and roles of "ordinary" people changed over time. In these fascinating British and Dutch cases, we see how the study of this evolution imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.