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Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London (Hardcover, New Ed)
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London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a
surprisingly diverse place, home not just to people from throughout
the British Isles but to a significant population of French and
Dutch immigrants, to travelers and refugees from beyond Europe's
borderlands and, from the 1650s, to a growing Jewish community. Yet
although we know much about the population of the capital of early
modern England, we know little about how Londoners conceived of the
many peoples of their own city. Diversity and Difference in Early
Modern London seeks to rectify this, addressing the question of how
the inhabitants of the metropolis ordered the heterogeneity around
them. Rather than relying upon literary or theatrical
representations, this study emphasizes day-to-day practice, drawing
upon petitions, government records, guild minute books and taxation
disputes along with plays and printed texts. It shows how the
people of London defined belonging and exclusion in the course of
their daily actions, through such prosaic activities as the making
and selling of goods, the collection of taxes and the daily give
and take of guild politics. This book demonstrates that encounters
with heterogeneity predate either imperial expansion or
post-colonial immigration. In doing so it offers a perspective of
interest both to scholars of the early modern English metropolis
and to historians of race, migration, imperialism and the wider
Atlantic world. An empirical examination of civic economics,
taxation and occupational politics that asks broader questions
about multiculturalism and Englishness, this study speaks not just
to the history of immigration in London itself, but to the wider
debate about evolving notions of national identity in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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