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Author: Keith Wrightson (Yale University, Connecticut)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.620kg
ISBN: 9781107614598
ISBN 10: 1107614597
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 13 February 2017
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to describe how 'English society became more defined, institutionally, ideologically and culturally' while it also 'became more diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern England has given way to a model that reflects the 'cultural turn'. ... Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE 'Good textbooks on the social history of 'early modern' England are a rare thing ... The field has come some way ... as scholarship sought to expand, clarify and nuance the initial findings of that generation. This collection [with Wrightson as editor] reflects those efforts, and it will be of immeasurable value to students and teachers of the period, collating as it does much of the most important recent scholarship on a variety of critical topics into manageable chapters ... Each contribution has its own argument and its own nuances. This book admirably synthesises this knowledge in an accessible and stimulating way and occupies a critical space in the literature on this period of English history.' Jonathan Healey, The English Historical Review 'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to describe how `English society became more defined, institutionally, ideologically and culturally' while it also `became more diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern England has given way to a model that reflects the `cultural turn'. ... Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE 'Good textbooks on the social history of `early modern' England are a rare thing ... The field has come some way ... as scholarship sought to expand, clarify and nuance the initial findings of that generation. This collection [with Wrightson as editor] reflects those efforts, and it will be of immeasurable value to students and teachers of the period, collating as it does much of the most important recent scholarship on a variety of critical topics into manageable chapters ... Each contribution has its own argument and its own nuances. This book admirably synthesises this knowledge in an accessible and stimulating way and occupies a critical space in the literature on this period of English history.' Jonathan Healey, The English Historical Review
'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to describe how 'English society became more defined, institutionally, ideologically and culturally' while it also 'became more diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern England has given way to a model that reflects the 'cultural turn'. ... Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE
'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to describe how 'English society became more defined, institutionally, ideologically and culturally' while it also 'became more diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern England has given way to a model that reflects the 'cultural turn'. ... Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE 'Teachers and scholars of early modern England will rejoice at the publication of this book. Wrightson has joined with 17 others to describe how `English society became more defined, institutionally, ideologically and culturally' while it also `became more diversified regionally and socially.' The book presents cutting-edge research by eminent scholars; the older approach that sought to chart the rise and fall of classes in early modern England has given way to a model that reflects the `cultural turn'. ... Essential.' D. R. Bisson, CHOICE
Author Information
Keith Wrightson is Randolph W. Townsend Jr Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He previously held positions at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, where he was Professor of Social History. His publications include the ground-breaking English Society, 1580-1680 (1982), Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (2000) and Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, his City and the Plague (2011), as well as many essays on the social history of early modern England. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a former President of the North American Conference on British Studies and an Honorary Vice-President of the Social History Society.
