Remaking English Society

Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England

Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, John D. Walter, Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, John D. Walter

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781843837961, 9781843837961
• eBook ISBN: 9781782041047
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years, these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and litigation; class and deference; labouring relations, neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption. STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle, Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton, Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood

Table of contents

• Frontcover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations, Figures, Maps and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. The Making and Remaking of Early Modern English Social History
• 2. Brokering Fatherhood: Illegitimacy and Paternal Rights and Responsibilities in Early Modern England
• 3. Gender, Sexuality and the Consumption of Musical Culture in Eighteenth-Century London
• 4. Where was Mrs Turner? Governance and Gender in an Eighteenth-Century Village
• 5. Local Arithmetic: Information Cultures in Early Modern England
• 6. Intoxicants and the Early Modern City
• 7. Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England
• 8. Written Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580–1680
• 9. Witchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England
• 10. Deference, Paternalism and Popular Memory in Early Modern England
• 11. Work, Reward and Labour Discipline in Late Seventeenth-Century England
• 12. Living in Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Terling
• 13. From Commonwealth to Public Opulence: The Redefinition of Wealth and Government in Early Modern Britain
• Appendix: Bibliography of the Published Writings of Keith Wrightson from 1974 to 2011
• Index
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Backcover