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Author Wood, Andy

Title The Politics of Social Conflict : the Peak Country, 1520-1770
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Contents Preliminaries; Content; Figures and Tables; Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction 'Terms we did not understand': landscape, place and perceptions; 1 Social relations and popular culture in early modern England; 2 Economy and society in the Peak Country, c. 1520-1570; 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; 6 'The memory of the people': custom, law and popular culture; 7 The politics of custom; 8 Community, identity and culture
9 'Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz': sources of social conflict, 1500-160010 'All is hurly burly here': local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640; 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, 1640-1660; 13 The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660-1770; 14 The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Count
Summary This book provides a new approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture and has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. Above all, the book challenges the claim that early modern England was a hierarchical, 'pre-class' society
Notes Print version record
Subject Social conflict -- England -- Derbyshire -- History
Social conditions.
Social conflict.
SUBJECT Derbyshire (England) -- Social conditions
Subject England -- Derbyshire.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511053474
0511053479