Title:
Rethinking social history : English society 1570-1920 and its interpretation / edited by Adrian Wilson.
Author:
Wilson, Adrian, 1947-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A critical portrait of social history / Adrian Wilson -- The enclosure of English social history / Keith Wrightson -- Living on the stage of the world: The concept of privacy among the elite of early modern England / Linda A. Pollock -- From Colyton to Waterloo: Mortality, politics and economics in historical demography / John Landers -- A social history of plausibility: Country, city and calculation in Augustan Britain / Simon Schaffer -- Towards a post-Marxist social history: Thompson, Clark and beyond / Patrick Curry -- The crime wave: Recent writing on crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century England / Joanna Innes and John Styles -- Rough usage: Prostitution, law and the social historian / Philippa Levine -- Foundations of an integrated historiography / Adrian Wilson.
Publisher:
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. martin's Press,
Publication Place:
Manchester [England] ; New York : New York, NY, USA :
ISBN:
0719035252 (hardback)
Subject:
Social History.
England -- Social conditions.
Contents:
A critical portrait of social history / Adrian Wilson -- The enclosure of English social history / Keith Wrightson -- Living on the stage of the world: The concept of privacy among the elite of early modern England / Linda A. Pollock -- From Colyton to Waterloo: Mortality, politics and economics in historical demography / John Landers -- A social history of plausibility: Country, city and calculation in Augustan Britain / Simon Schaffer -- Towards a post-Marxist social history: Thompson, Clark and beyond / Patrick Curry -- The crime wave: Recent writing on crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century England / Joanna Innes and John Styles -- Rough usage: Prostitution, law and the social historian / Philippa Levine -- Foundations of an integrated historiography / Adrian Wilson.
Physical Description:
ix, 342 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
c1993.
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