Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 14)

Product Description 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 WoodTable of ContentsThe Making and Remaking of Early Modern English Social History - Steve Hindle and John D. Walter and Alexandra ShepardBrokering Fatherhood: Illegitimacy and Paternal Rights and Responsibilities in Early Modern England - Alexandra ShepardGender, Sexuality and the Consumption of Musical Culture in Eighteenth-Century London - Helen M BerryWhere was Mrs Turner? Governance and Gender in an Eighteenth-Century Village - Naomi TadmorLocal Arithmetic: Information Cultures in Early Modern England - Paul GriffithsIntoxicants and the Early Modern City - Phil WithingtonFood, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England - Adam FoxWritten Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580-1680 - Tim StrettonWitchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England - Malcolm J GaskillDeference, Paternalism and Popular Memory in Early Modern England - Andy WoodWork, Reward and Labour Discipline in Late Seventeenth-Century England - Steve HindleLiving in Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Terling - Henry FrenchFrom Commonwealth to Public Opulence: The Redefinition of Wealth and Government in Early Modern Britain - Craig MuldrewAppendix: Bibliography of the Published Writings of Keith Wrightson from 1974 to 2011Compiled by Lindsay O'Neill - Lindsay O'Neill Review This is a strong and coherent collection of essays. . . . In their analytical sophistication and their archival richness, the essays here demonstrate Keith Wrightson's deep impact on early modern British social history.RENAISSANCE QUARTERLYAn important contribution to the historiography of early modern England and an appropriate acknowledgement of the brilliance of Keith Wrightson.LANDSCAPE HISTORY About the Author John Walter, born in Glasgow in 1951, is among the world’s most prolific writers on small arms―author of seventy books, translated into more than a dozen languages. Walter has worked with edged weapons, bladed tools, firearms, railway locomotives, warships, scientific instruments and even heraldry. Among his published works have been several studies of the Luger pistol; four editions of Rifles of the World; The Airgun Book; The Rifle Story and The Handgun Story; Guns of the Elite and its current successor, Guns of the Elite Forces; The German Rifle; and The Greenhill Dictionary of Guns and Gunmakers.