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  • Remaking English Society

    Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England

    by Steve Hindle, John D. Walter, Lindsay O'Neill, Malcolm J Gaskill, Naomi Tadmor, Paul Griffiths, Phil Withington, Tim Stretton, Alexandra Shepard1, Adam Fox2, Andy Wood3, Craig Muldrew4, Helen M Berry5, Henry French6 ...
    A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

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  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    by Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Levellers

    Radical political thought in the English Revolution

    by Rachel Foxley ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Social History of England, 1500–1750

    Edited by Keith Wrightson ...
    Series series A Social History of England
    The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • English Society 1580–1680

    by Keith Wrightson ...
    English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities. This is an excellent interpretation of English ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750

    by James A Sharpe ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Old Boys

    The Decline and Rise of the Public School

    by David Turner ...
    To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain

    1750-1850

    by Kenneth Morgan ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.This fully revised and updated second ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

    Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight ...
    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... Read more

    $53.09 USD