Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos (born 1949) is an Israeli historian who researches

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. As of 2020, she is an associate professor of

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at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Biography

Krausman Ben-Amos is a social and cultural historian of

, particularly

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. She studied for a BA and MA at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

and she gained her Ph.D. at

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in 1986. Her topics of interest include the history of childhood and

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, networks, social interactions and reciprocity, gift exchange,

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and the history of the emotions.

Selected works

;Books * ''Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England'' (New Haven and London:

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, 1994).
''The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England''
(Cambridge:

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, 2008, paperback edition, 2010). ;Research articles * "Failure to Become Freemen: Urban Apprentices in Early Modern England," ''

Social History Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

'' Vol. 16, No. 2, May 1991 * "Gifts and Favors: Informal Support in Early Modern England," ''

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'' Vol. 72, No. 2, June 2000

References

External links

Prof. Ilana Krausman Ben Amos
at Ben Gurion University of the Negev

at Ben Gurion University of the Negev

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1949 births Living people Israeli historians Israeli women historians Contemporary historians Historians of Europe Ben-Gurion University of the Negev faculty Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni {{Israel-historian-stub