Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 445 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511495953
Content:
This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated. The result is a significant contribution to the history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521838085
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521093460
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521838085
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511495953
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