| Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 Contributor(s): Hitchcock, David (Author), Kümin, Beat (Editor), Cowan, Brian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472589947 ISBN-13: 9781472589941 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - True Crime - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 364.148 |
| LCCN: 2015048079 |
| Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.10 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject. Using a rich array of archival and literary sources, Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 offers a history not only of the experiences of vagrants themselves, but also of how the settled 'better sort' perceived vagrancy, how it was culturally represented in both popular and elite literature as a shadowy underworld of dissembling rogues, gypsies, and pedlars, and how these representations powerfully affected the lives of vagrants themselves. Hitchcock's is an important study for all scholars and students interested in the social and cultural history of early modern England. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hitchcock, David: - David Hitchcock is Lecturer in History at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.Kumin, Beat: - Beat Kumin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of The Communal Age in Western Europe c. 1100-1800 (2013), Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007) and The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560 (1996). He is also the editor of A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age (2012), Political Space in Pre-industrial Europe (2009) and The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History (2nd Ed., 2014), amongst other volumes.Cowan, Brian: - Brian Cowan is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse (2005), which was awarded the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association in 2006, and The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell (2012).Hitchcock, David: - David Hitchcock is Lecturer in History at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. |