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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
1999
Online ISBN:
9780511496134
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496134
Subjects:
British History after 1450, History, Economic History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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Book description

This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. 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. A detailed reconstruction of economic and social change within the region is followed by an in-depth examination of the changing cultural meanings of custom, gender, locality, skill, literacy, orality and magic. The local history of social conflict sheds light upon the nature of political engagement and the origins of early capitalism. 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.

Awards

Second Prize in the Whitfield Prize 1999

Reviews

‘[A] richly rewarding study … [Wood’s] fine analysis of the plebeian politics of the Peak in the English Revolution … is itself worth the price of admission to a masterclass in the new social history of politics.’

Source: Economic History Review

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