UID:
almafu_9960119709502883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-104-4
Series Statement:
Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Content:
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processes of cultural diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years, these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and litigation; class and deference; labouring relations, neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption. STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor of History, University of Essex.
Note:
Includes index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. The Making and Remaking of Early Modern English Social History / John Walter -- 2. Brokering Fatherhood: Illegitimacy and Paternal Rights and Responsibilities in Early Modern England / Alexandra Shepard -- 3. Gender, Sexuality and the Consumption of Musical Culture in Eighteenth-Century London / Helen Berry -- 4. Where was Mrs Turner? Governance and Gender in an Eighteenth-Century Village / Naomi Tadmor -- 5. Local Arithmetic: Information Cultures in Early Modern England / Paul Griffiths -- 6. Intoxicants and the Early Modern City / Phil Withington -- 7. Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England / Adam Fox -- 8. Written Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580-1680 / Tim Stretton -- 9. Witchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England / Malcolm Gaskill -- 10. Deference, Paternalism and Popular Memory in Early Modern England / Andy Wood.
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Contents note continued: 11. Work, Reward and Labour Discipline in Late Seventeenth-Century England / Steve Hindle -- 12. Living in Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Terling / H.R. French -- 13. From Commonwealth to Public Opulence: The Redefinition of Wealth and Government in Early Modern Britain / Craig Muldrew.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84383-796-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782041047
