ISBN:
9780582294424
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (161 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Seminar Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Change and Continuity : England 1550-1750
DDC:
306.0942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation and population expansion in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Overall he stresses that social change combined with social continuity to produce a distinctive early modern English society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; An introduction to the series; Note on referencing system; Part One: The Structure of Early Modern English Society; 1. The Social Order in Early Modern England; 2. Geographical Mobility; 3. An Agrarian Society; 4. Contrasting Communities; 5. Family and Kinship; The English ''marriage Pattern''; Relations Between Members of the Family and Kinsfolk; 6. Local Communities and the Nation; Part Two: Changing Material Conditions; 7. Population Fluctuations and Changing Social Fortunes; Population trends; Price trends
Description / Table of Contents:
''Gentlemen'': the growth and consolidation of the land-owning classes1550-1640; 1640-1750; ''Yeomen'' and ''husbandmen'': the decline of the English small farmer; Labourers, servants and vagrants; Craftsmen and tradesmen; Merchants and professional people: the growth of ''the monied interest''; 8. Poverty and Dearth; 9. Affluence and Prosperity; The emergence of an urban society; A ''consumer society''?; Part Three: Changing Ideas; 10. Education and Literacy; 11. The Impact of Protestantism; 1550-1625; 1625-1750; 12. The Scientific Revolution; Part Four: Assessment; Part Five: Documents
Description / Table of Contents:
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Note:
Description based upon print version of record
