| The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770 Contributor(s): Wood, Andy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521561140 ISBN-13: 9780521561143 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Business & Economics | Economic History - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
| Dewey: 306.094 |
| LCCN: 98-48331 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 374 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |