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The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520 1770
Contributor(s): Wood, Andy (Author), Andy, Wood (Author)
ISBN: 0521037727     ISBN-13: 9780521037723
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $47.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2007
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Annotation: This book provides a new approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture. 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. 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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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306.094
Lexile Measure: 1530
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 376 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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This book provides a new approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture. 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. 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.