Introduction: framing early modern England Keith Wrightson; Part I. Discovering the English: 1. Crafting the nation Cathy Shrank; 2. Surveying the people Paul Griffiths; 3. Little commonwealths I: the household and family relationships Linda Pollock; 4. Little commonwealths II: communities Malcolm Gaskill; Part II. Currents of Change: 5. Reformations Alec Ryrie; 6. Words, words, words: education, literacy and print Adam Fox; 7. Land and people Jane Whittle; 8. Urbanization Phil Withington; 9. The people and the law Tim Stretton; 10. Authority and protest John Walter; 11. Consumption and material culture Adrian Green; Part III. Social Identities: 12. 'Gentlemen': re-making the English ruling class Henry French; 13. The 'middling sort': an emergent cultural identity Craig Muldrew; 14. The 'meaner sort': labouring people and the poor Jeremy Boulton; 15. Gender, the body and sexuality Alexandra Shepard; 16. The English and 'others' in England and beyond Alison Games; Coda: history, time and social memory Andy Wood.
The first overview of early modern English social history since the 1980s, bringing together the leading authorities in the field.
Keith Wrightson is Randolph W. Townsend Jr Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He previously held positions at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, where he was Professor of Social History. His publications include the ground-breaking English Society, 1580–1680 (1982), Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (2000) and Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, his City and the Plague (2011), as well as many essays on the social history of early modern England. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a former President of the North American Conference on British Studies and an Honorary Vice-President of the Social History Society.
'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the
publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to
describe how 'English society became more defined, institutionally,
ideologically and culturally' while it also 'became more
diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents
cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that
sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern
England has given way to a model that reflects the 'cultural turn'.
… Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE
'Good textbooks on the social history of 'early modern' England are
a rare thing … The field has come some way … as scholarship sought
to expand, clarify and nuance the initial findings of that
generation. This collection [with Wrightson as editor] reflects
those efforts, and it will be of immeasurable value to students and
teachers of the period, collating as it does much of the most
important recent scholarship on a variety of critical topics into
manageable chapters … Each contribution has its own argument and
its own nuances. This book admirably synthesises this knowledge in
an accessible and stimulating way and occupies a critical space in
the literature on this period of English history.' Jonathan Healey,
The English Historical Review
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