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" Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800 / "
edited by Henry French & Jonathan Barry.
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BL
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958394
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b712764
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| Title & Author
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Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800 /\ edited by Henry French Jonathan Barry.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2004.
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xi, 254 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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1403917647
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: 9781403917645
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| Notes
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"Derives from papers given at a colloquium held at the University of Exeter in September 2002"--Preface.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index.
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| Contents
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Identity and agency in English society, 1500-1800 : introduction / Henry French with Jonathan Barry -- Civility, honesty and the identification of the deserving poor in seventeenth-century England / Steve Hindle -- Social inequality, identity and the labouring poor in eighteenth-century England / Peter King -- Honesty, worth and gender in early modern England, 1560-1640 / Alexandra Shepard -- A dynamic model of social relations : celibacy, credit and the identity of the 'spinster' in seventeenth-century England / Judith Spicksley -- Class and credit : social identity, wealth and the life course in early modern England / Craig Muldrew -- Sense and singularity : the social experiences of John Marsh and Thomas Stutterd in late-Georgian England / Helen Berry -- Agency, custom, and the English corporate system / Phil Withington.
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This collection of essays is arranged around the central issue raised by a raft of new empirical research - the relationship between social identity, or the 'vision of the self', and the ways in which this can explain historical agency.
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Group identity-- England-- History, Congresses.
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Marginality, Social-- England-- History, Congresses.
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Social role-- England-- History, Congresses.
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Social status-- England-- History, Congresses.
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Group identity.
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Marginality, Social.
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Social conditions
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Social role.
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Social status.
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Soziale Identität.
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Soziale Rolle.
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England, Social conditions, 16th century, Congresses.
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England, Social conditions, 17th century, Congresses.
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England, Social conditions, 18th century, Congresses.
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England.
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Großbritannien.
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| Dewey Classification
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305/.0942/0903
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| LC Classification
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HN398.E5I34 2004
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Barry, Jonathan,1956-
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French, Henry,1968-
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