阿萨·布里格斯与维多利亚时代社会史研究

Asa Briggs and the Study of Victorian Social History

阿萨·布里格斯是英国著名的社会史学家,学界普遍认为是他开启了维多利亚时代英国社会史的研究领域.布里格斯创造性地提出社会史是包括政治、经济、文化等一切要素在内的整体史,并在跨学科、跨国界的比较视野下解读了19世纪英国的人物、城市与物品,开拓了新的历史研究领域与范式.通过呈现丰富的"生活经验"和历史细节,布里格斯揭示了维多利亚时代社会发展的独特性和社会文化的多样性.

Asa Briggs(1921-2016)is one of the most famous social historians in Britain.It is well recognized that Briggs has open the research field of British social history in the Victorian era.Briggs creatively put forward that social history is a whole history including politics,economy,culture and other elements.Moreover,he has interpreted the people,cities,and things of the 19 th century Britain through interdisciplinary and cross-border comparison fashion,opening up new research fields and paradigms.Through presenting rich"life experience"and historical details,Briggs reveals the uniqueness of social development and the diversity of social culture in the Victorian era.