The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) - Softcover

Wood, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521037727 ISBN 13: 9780521037723

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture and has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. Above all, the book challenges the claim that early modern England was a hierarchical, 'pre-class' society.

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'[A] richly rewarding study ... [Wood's] fine analysis of the plebeian politics of the Peak in the English Revolution ... is itself worth the price of admission to a masterclass in the new social history of politics.' Economic History Review

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This book provides an alternative 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 social relations. A detailed reconstruction of economic and social change within the region is followed by an in-depth examination of the changing cultural meanings of custom, gender, locality, skill, literacy, orality and magic. The local history of social conflict sheds light upon the nature of political engagement and the origins of early capitalism. Important insights are offered into early modern social and gender identities, civil war allegiances, the appeal of radical ideas and the making of the English working class. Above all, the book challenges the claim that early modern England was a hierarchical, 'pre-class' society.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521037727
• ISBN 13: 9780521037723
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376