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The politics of social conflict : the Peak Country, 1520-1770 /

This book provides a new approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based on a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire c. 1520-1770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and so...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Andy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'Terms we did not understand': landscape, place and perceptions
  • 1. Social relations and popular culture in early modern England
  • pt. I. The structures of inequality
  • 2. Economy and society in the Peak Country, c. 1520-1570
  • 3. Industrialization and social change, c. 1570-1660
  • 4. The Peak Country as an industrial region, c. 1660-1770
  • 5. Social conflict and early capitalism
  • pt. II. The conditions of community
  • 6. 'The memory of the people': custom, law and popular culture
  • 7. The politics of custom
  • 8. Community, identity and culture
  • pt. III. The politics of social conflict
  • 9. 'Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz': sources of social conflict, 1500-1600
  • 10. 'All is hurly burly here': local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640
  • 11. The Peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England
  • 12. 'Prerogative hath many proctors': the English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640-1660
  • 13. The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660-1770
  • 14. The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country.