Social history, local history, and historiography
Subtitle: collected essays
By: by R.C. Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781283369848; 9781443833912; 9781443833400
Subjects: Social change; History; Historiography; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; HISTORY; World
Description: This wide-ranging volume collects together twelve of the author's longer essays, mainly drawn from those first published in the last two decades. Chiefly consisting of micro-studies of a variety of different aspects of early modern English history, the book concerns itself with social and economic change, the period of the English Revolution and its long-lasting impact, with Puritanism, with the family as a social institution, and with historical consciousness and different forms of historica ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; INDEX