The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500-1800Through a series of sharply focused studies spanning three centuries, David Rollison explores the rise of capitalist manufacturing in the English countryside and the revolution in consciousness that accompanied it. Combining the empiricism of English historiography with the rationalism of Annales, and drawing on ideas from a wide range of disciplines, 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 peoples lives. Using localized case studies of families and individuals the book starts with significant detail and moves out to build up a subtle and innovative view of English cultural identities in the early modern period. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Part I CRADLES OF CHANGE | 19 |
Part II NEIGHBOURHOOD TO NATION | 65 |
Part III TWO REVOLUTIONARIES | 119 |
Part IV THE MULTITUDES AROUND US | 193 |
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The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500-1800 David Rollison No preview available - 1992 |
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aborigines Aubrey Aubrey’s Bishop Bristol Cambridge cent centre chapter church Cirencester cloth industry clothiers clothmaking clothworking conjuncture contemporary Corbet Cotswold Cotswold Edge culture described districts Dursley early modern England Eastington Edward Trotman eighteenth century Elder father Forest of Dean freehold gentry Gloucester Journal Gloucestershire Historicall Relation History households Ibid Intensification John Roberts John Smyth king king’s labour land landless Lechlade lived Lollard London lord manor manufacturing market towns means meant Melksham Memoir middle rank Mills multitude neighbourhood neighbours occupation ofthe organised Oxford parish Parliament political poor population proverbs Puritan Quakers radical Randwick reference region religious Richard Richard Farnsworth riots Rollison Royalist sense seventeenth century Siston sixteenth century Smyth of Nibley social society Stephens Stroud Stroudwater Valleys structure Tetbury Tewkesbury Thomas Throgmorton took trade Trotman Family Tyndale’s Vale of Berkeley village weavers William Tyndale Winchcombe Wotton Wotton-under-Edge wrote yeoman