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Book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530   1688

Download or read book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 1688 written by Jonathan Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.

Book The Tudor and Stuart Town

Download or read book The Tudor and Stuart Town written by Jonathan Barry and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this reader - one of a set of four volumes on urban history covering the late 12th to early 20th centuries - is to gather together in an accessible form a number of key contributions to the study of the Tudor and Stuart town.

Book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530   1688

Download or read book The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 1688 written by Jonathan Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.

Book The Routledge Companion to the Stuart Age  1603 1714

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Stuart Age 1603 1714 written by John Wroughton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With chronologies, biographies, key documents, maps, genealogies, an extensive bibliography and packed with facts and figures, this is an invaluable, user-friendly and compact compendium examining all aspects of the period from James I to Queen Anne.

Book Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland

Download or read book Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland written by Peter Borsay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book The Middling Sort and the Politics of Social Reformation

Download or read book The Middling Sort and the Politics of Social Reformation written by Richard Dean Smith and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interrelated demographic, economic, religious, and cultural transformations that England experienced in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were most pronounced in larger towns in the south and east, such as Colchester in Essex. The effects produced by these changes led to an effort at social and sexual regulation by the town's more prosperous residents, in order to control and modify the negative impact on the local population, especially the poor. This book provides an in-depth portrait of an urban setting, discussing both wrongdoers themselves and the motivations of the craftsmen and tradesmen - the «middling sorts» - who enforced local standards of conduct.

Book City Limits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Owens
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0773536515
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book City Limits written by Judith Owens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of new approaches are used to look at the early modern European city.

Book A Companion to Tudor Britain

Download or read book A Companion to Tudor Britain written by Robert Tittler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

Book The Stuart Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Coward
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2017-02-16
  • ISBN : 1351985426
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book The Stuart Age written by Barry Coward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. The Stuart Age is a long-standing favourite of lecturers and students of early modern British history, and this new edition is essential reading for those studying Stuart Britain.

Book The Country and the City Revisited

Download or read book The Country and the City Revisited written by Gerald M. MacLean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.

Book Going to Market

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  • Author : David Pennington
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-03-03
  • ISBN : 1317126157
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Going to Market written by David Pennington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. This has implications for early modern gender relations and commercial culture alike. For the evidence analyzed here suggests that male householders and town authorities alike accepted the necessity of women’s participation in the commercial economy, and that women’s assertiveness in marketplace dealings suggests how little influence patriarchal prescriptions had over the way in which men and women did business. The book also illuminates England’s departure from what we often think of as a traditional economic culture. Because women were usually in charge of provisioning the household, scholars have seen them as the most ardent supporters of an early-modern ’moral economy’, which placed the interests of poor consumers over the efficiency of markets. But the hard-headed, hard-nosed tactics of market women that emerge in this book suggests that a profit-oriented commercial culture, far from being the preserve of wealthy merchants and landowners, permeated early modern communities. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources-including popular literature, criminal records, and civil litigation depositions-the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors. This analysis of the records shows women able to leverage their commercial roles and social contacts to defend the economic interests of their households and their neighborhoods.

Book Youth and Authority

Download or read book Youth and Authority written by Paul Griffiths and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking to portray a more positive image of young people in the 16th and 17th centuries, this study surveys attitudes and activities to demonstrate that youth had a creative presence, an identity, and a historical significance which was never fully explored.

Book Merseyside

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Benbough-Jackson
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2011-05-25
  • ISBN : 1443831255
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Merseyside written by Mike Benbough-Jackson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merseyside: Culture and Place demonstrates how Liverpool and Merseyside have a rich, fascinating and sometimes controversial cultural history. The result of a conference held to mark Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, this interdisciplinary volume contains chapters by scholars working in a variety of fields, including Geography, Art, English, Marketing and History. There are many facets to Merseyside’s cultural history, and the contributors to this publication bring their own perspective to bear on various features of the area’s rich heritage. Taking in examples from the early modern era to the present day, Merseyside: Culture and Place draws attention to often overlooked cultural forms, such as sketches of the Mersey by J. M. W. Turner and the fan culture exhibited on Liverpool FC’s Kop. Each chapter in the book is based on original research and the contributors set their findings in a local, national and, in some cases, an international context. Both academics and general readers will find much of interest in a book that reflects Merseyside’s distinctive and multi-faceted character.

Book Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England

Download or read book Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England written by Susan Dwyer Amussen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the work of major scholars on both sides of the Atlantic this volume seeks to explore the interconnections between popular culture and political activism at both the local and central levels. Strongly influenced by the work of David Underdown, the contributions range across a spectrum of social and political history from witchcraft to the aristocracy, from forest riots to battles of the civil war. The volume combines chapters from historians of gender, of political theory, of social structure, and of high politics. Within this diversity, the contributors offer a cohesive approach to the study of early modern England, encouraging the exploration of mentalities and political activities, as well as artistic rendering, writing and ceremony within the widest context of cultural politics.

Book Immigrants and the Industries of London  1500   1700

Download or read book Immigrants and the Industries of London 1500 1700 written by Lien Bich Luu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is not only a modern-day debate. Major change in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a surge of political and religious refugees moving across the continent. Estimates suggest that from 1550 to 1585 around 50,000 Dutch and Walloons from the southern Netherlands settled in England, and in the late seventeenth century 50,000 Huguenots from France followed suit. The majority gravitated towards London which, already a magnet for merchants and artisans across the centuries, began a process of major transformation. New skills, capital, technical know-how and social networks came with these migrants and helped to spark London's cosmopolitan flair and diversity. But the early experience of many of these immigrants in London was one of hostility, serving to slow down the adoption and expansion of new crafts and technologies. Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700 examines the origins and the changing face and shape of many trades, crafts and skills in the capital in this transformative period. It focuses on three crafts in particular: silk weaving, beer brewing and the silver trade, crafts which had relied heavily on foreign skills in the 16th century and had become major industries in the capital by the 18th century. Each craft was established by a different group of immigrants, distinguished not only by their social backgrounds, social organisation, identity, motives, migration pattern and experience and links with their home country but also by the nature of their reception, assimilation and economic contribution. Change was a protracted process in the London of the day. Immigrants endured inferior status, discrimination and sometimes exclusion, and this affected both their ability to integrate and their willingness to share trade secrets. And resistance by the English population meant that the adoption of new skills often took a long time - in some cases more than three centuries - to complete. The book places the adoption of new crafts and technologies in London within a broader European context, and relates it to the phenomenal growth of the metropolis and technological developments within these specific trades. It throws new perspectives on the movement of skills from Europe and the transmission of know-how from the immigrant population to English artisans. The book explores how, through enterprise and persistence, the immigrants' contribution helped transform London from a peripheral and backward European city to become the workshop of the world by the nineteenth century. By way of conclusion the book brings the current immigration debate full circle to examine the lessons we can draw from this early-modern experience.

Book Tudor Government

    Book Details:
  • Author : T.A. Morris
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-08-08
  • ISBN : 113465376X
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book Tudor Government written by T.A. Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tudor Government looks at English government across all the Tudor reigns, including those of Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth, and explores such themes as: the role of parliament law and order the government of the church the personal role of the monarch.

Book Cast Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. L. Beier
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2014-06-16
  • ISBN : 0896804607
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Cast Out written by A. L. Beier and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. In this ambitious collection, vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to social and governmental responses to poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. The essays in Cast Out represent the best scholarship on these subjects and include discussions of the lives of the underclass, strategies for surviving and escaping poverty, the criminalization of poverty by the state, the rise of welfare and development programs, the relationship between imperial powers and colonized peoples, and the struggle to achieve independence after colonial rule. By juxtaposing these histories, the authors explore vagrancy as a common response to poverty, labor dislocation, and changing social norms, as well as how this strategy changed over time and adapted to regional peculiarities. Part of a growing literature on world history, Cast Out offers fresh perspectives and new research in fields that have yet to fully investigate vagrancy and homelessness. This book by leading scholars in the field is for policy makers, as well as for courses on poverty, homelessness, and world history. Contributors: Richard B. Allen David Arnold A. L. Beier Andrew Burton Vincent DiGirolamo Andrew A. Gentes Robert Gordon Frank Tobias Higbie Thomas H. Holloway Abby Margolis Paul Ocobock Aminda M. Smith Linda Woodbridge