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By Andy Wood

ISBN-10: 0521037727

ISBN-13: 9780521037723

ISBN-10: 0521561140

ISBN-13: 9780521561143

This booklet presents another method of the heritage of social clash, well known politics and plebeian tradition within the early smooth interval. in line with an in depth examine of the height kingdom of Derbyshire c. 1520–1770, it has implications for understandings of sophistication id, pop culture, revolt, customized and social family members. a close reconstruction of monetary and social swap in the sector is through an in-depth exam of the altering cultural meanings of customized, gender, locality, ability, literacy, orality and magic. The neighborhood background of social clash sheds mild upon the character of political engagement and the origins of early capitalism. vital insights are provided into early glossy social and gender identities, civil battle allegiances, the charm of radical principles and the making of the English operating classification. especially, the publication demanding situations the declare that early glossy England used to be a hierarchical, 'pre-class' society.

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