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" The local origins of modern society : "
David Rollison.
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BL
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1040593
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b794963
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Rollison, David,1945-
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The local origins of modern society : : Gloucestershire 1500-1800 /\ David Rollison.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1992.
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xvi, 319 pages :: map ;; 24 cm
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0203991494
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: 0415070007
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: 9780203991497
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: 9780415070003
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-309) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Country capitalism -- pt. I. Cradles of change -- 1. Cradles of Change: The Manufacturing Districts -- 2. Trails of Progress: The Reorientation and Intensification of Traffic, 1600-1800 -- pt. II. Neighbourhood to nation -- 3. Proverbial Culture -- 4. Tyndale and All His Sect -- 5. Neighbourhood to Nation: The Trotmans: A Middle-Rank Kin-Coalition, 1512-1712 -- pt. III. Two revolutionaries -- 6. 'Small Thinges and Grande Designes': A Revolutionary's History of the English Revolution -- 7. Cunning Man and Quaker: John Roberts of Siddington St. Mary -- pt. IV. The multitudes around us -- 8. Community at the Borders: Mockery and Misrule in an Eighteenth-Century Industrial Village -- 9. 'A Concatenation of Vicious Habits': A Season of Riots and a Public Discussion, 1738-41 -- 10. Lasting Prejudices: Languages of Social Discrimination.
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"Explanations of the rise of industrial capitalism often emphasise urban centres as the focus for change. Combining the empiricism of English historiography with the rationalism of Annales, David Rollison argues that the origins of change lie in the countryside, with the flight of manufacturing industry from towns to rural districts." "Through a series of sharply focused studies spanning three centuries, Rollison explores the rise of capitalist manufacturing in the English countryside and the revolution in consciousness which accompanied it. Adopting a conjunctural approach, he focuses on universal subjects such as language, speech and writing, culture, sexuality, gender, class and social stratification, community and the individual, and revolution and evolution to tease our complex cultural meanings. He proceeds via a series of case studies of families and individuals. Starting with significant detail and moving out to build up a subtle and innovative view of English society in the early modern period, he argues that the explosive implications of the rise of rural industry created new social formations and altered the communal, cultural and social contexts of people's lives. The book focuses on problems specific to English historiography such as industrialisation, commerce and trade, religion, provincialism and localism, protest movements and class conflict but draws on a wide range of ideas: literary, anthropological, sociological, geographical and philosophical. Using local histories to explore the myths and legends of a national epic, the book provides an illuminating investigation of English cultural identities."--Jacket.
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15.70 history of Europe.
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Social conditions
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Platteland.
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Sociale ontwikkeling.
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Gloucestershire (England), History.
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Gloucestershire (England), Social conditions.
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Gloucestershire, Gran Bretaña, Condiciones sociales.
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Gloucestershire.
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England, Gloucestershire.
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Gloucestershire
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| Dewey Classification
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942.4/1
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DA670.G5R65 1992
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15.08bcl
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15.64bcl
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15.70bcl
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NN 4040rvk
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