The Beginnings of English Society
Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon |
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Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon |
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Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Church |
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Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Harold Perkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113442549X |
A long-awaited revised edition of one of our key History titles - one of the bestselling titles on the list This is a seminal text of social history Has a new introduction that evaluates the book within its present historiographical context. Part of our informal 'Vintage' history series of new editions - with a new 'classic' look and new introduction by the author.
Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1952 |
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Author | : Keith Wrightson |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813532882 |
"A brilliant and persuasive synthesis of the best recent work in all fields of seventeenth century English history."--Christopher Hill "A triumphant success . . . deserves to be widely read."--H. T. Dickinson "Conceived as an intellectual whole and vibrantly alive."--John Kenyon, The Observer English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and societal change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change. The book emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities, and the unevenness of the process of transition, to build up an overall interpretation of continuity and change. In this edition, Keith Wrightson provides a new introduction to set the book in its context and to reflect on recent research, together with an updated guide to further reading. Keith Wrightson is a professor of history at Yale University. His many books include Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain.
Author | : Keith Wrightson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134858248 |
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Dorothy Whitelock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Solveig Robinson |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2013-11-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1554810744 |
The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books can inform, entertain, inspire, irritate, liberate, or challenge readers, and their forms can be tangible and traditional, like a printed, casebound volume, or virtual and transitory, like a screen-page of a cell-phone novel. Written in clear, non-specialist prose, The Book in Society first provides an overview of the rise of the book and of the modern publishing and bookselling industries. It explores the evolution of written texts from early forms to contemporary formats, the interrelationship between literacy and technology, and the prospects for the book in the twenty-first century. The second half of the book is based on historian Robert Darnton’s concept of a book publishing “communication circuit.” It examines how books migrate from the minds of authors to the minds of readers, exploring such topics as the rise of the modern notion of the author, the role of states and others in promoting or restricting the circulation of books, various modes of reproducing and circulating texts, and how readers’ responses help shape the form and content of the books available to them. Feature boxes highlighting key texts, individuals, and developments in the history of the book, carefully selected illustrations, and a glossary all help bring the history of the book to life.
Author | : James Horn |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838314 |
Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and regional studies to compare everyday life in English provincial society and the emergent societies of the Chesapeake Bay, Horn provides a richly textured picture of the immigrants' Old World backgrounds and their adjustment to life in America. Until the end of the seventeenth century, most settlers in Virginia and Maryland were born and raised in England, a factor of enormous consequence for social development in the two colonies. By stressing the vital social and cultural connections between England and the Chesapeake during this period, Horn places the development of early America in the context of a vibrant Anglophone transatlantic world and suggests a fundamental reinterpretation of New World society.