ISBN:
1283369923
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9781443814485
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9781283369923
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (224 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Locating Agency : Space, Power and Popular Politics
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Political science Congresses
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Agent (Philosophy) Congresses
;
Social history Congresses
;
Power (Social sciences) Congresses
Abstract:
In the latter half of the twentieth century, historians came to consider "politics" to mean more than simply the formal institutions and apparatus of government, run by a small minority of wealthy, educated elite men. The word has been adopted by historians of different genres as synonymous with power, or agency, and the scope for "political" activity has been widened to incorporate a variety of everyday events and ordinary people. These collected essays explore the quotidian experience of
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SPACE, AGENCY AND GENRE; ALEHOUSES, POPULAR POLITICS AND PLEBEIAN AGENCY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND; "A FURED MUTTON WOULDE CONTAYNE AS MUCH GOOD DOCTRINE"; NEIGHBOURS AND STRANGERS; CUSTOM, MEMORY AND THE OPERATIONS OF POWER IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FOREST OF DEAN; THE PEDLAR OF SWAFFHAM, THE FENLAND GIANT AND THE SARDINIAN COMMUNIST; DEATH AND THE JARVISES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX;
Note:
"This collection represents the proceedings of a conference held on these themes in March 2008 at the University of East Anglia"--P. 2
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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