Society in Early Modern England
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780745641294
Subjects: Great britain, social conditions; Civilization, modern; Great britain, civilization; England, social life and customs
Description: The book traces the forgotten history of the phrase 'early modern' to its coinage as a category of historical analysis by the Victorians and considers when and why words like 'modern' and 'society' were first introduced into English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In so doing it unpicks the connections between linguistic and social change and how the consequences of those processes still resonate today. --from publisher description.