The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770

ISBN-13: 9780521561143 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 374 str.

Andy Wood; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'[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.' Economic History Review

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; List of maps; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction - 'terms we did not understand': landscape, place and perceptions; 1. Social relations and popular culture in early modern England; Part I. The Structures of Inequality: 2. Economy and society in the Peak Country, c.1520–70; 3. Industrialization and social change, c.1570–1660; 4. The Peak Country as an industrial region, c.1660–1770; 5. Social conflict and early capitalism; Part II. The Conditions of Community: 6. 'The memory of the people': custom, law and popular culture; 7. The politics of custom; 8. Community, identity and culture; Part III. The Politics of Social Conflict: 9. 'Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz': sources of social conflict, 1500–1600; 10. 'All is hurly burly here': local histories of social conflict, 1600–40; 11. The Peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England; 12. 'Prerogative hath many proctors': the English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640–60; 13. The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660–1770; 14. The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country; Bibliography; Index.