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First comparative study of landless households brings out their
major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless
people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only
tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as
rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers
from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto
been relatively neglected, a gap which this volume, covering
Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain,
France and Spain from the sixteenth to the early twentieth
centuries, aims to fill, making creative use of a diverse range of
unexplored sources. Instead of concentrating on the well-documented
cases of landholding peasants, it explores the many different
experiences of the numerous rural landless. It explains how their
households were formed (often in the face of economic difficulties
and official hostility), how all the members of a family
contributed to its survival, how the landless related to other
social groups and negotiated access to vital resources, and how
they adapted as rural society was changed by war, politics,
agrarian and industrial development, government policy and welfare
systems. Contributors: Arnau Barquer i Cerda, John Broad, Dieter
Bruneel, Christine Fertig, Henry French, Margareth Lanzinger, Jonas
Lindstroem, Riikka Miettinen, Richard Paping, Wouter Ronsijn, Merja
Uotila, Nadine Vivier
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses
fundamental questions about the character of English society during
a period of decisive change. 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 Wood
Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a
standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. 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 Wood
The power and status of English male elites were not merely
inherited at birth but developed through everyday interactions with
family, peers and guardians. Much of these conversations were
conducted through correspondence. In this fascinating Sourcebook,
Mark Rothery and Henry French present a unique collection of
letters which together trace this construction of gender and social
identities. The Formation of Male Elite Identities in England,
c.1660-1900: - Reveals the lifelong process of shaping and managing
manliness via a range of social agents - Illustrates continuities
and changes in the values associated with the landed gentry over
the course of the period, and within the male lifecycle - Charts
the process from school and university, through to experiences of
travel, courtship, marriage and work - Provides a detailed
Introduction to the letters, editorial guidance throughout,
questions to stimulate discussion, and helpful suggestions for
further reading
Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history. Man's Estate is
the first book to focus on a particular social group, the English
landed gentry, and to cover a time span of several hundred years.
The authors move beyond the study of printed conduct literature,
which dominated earlier accounts, by examining the values expressed
in family correspondence in order to get closer to social
practices. Letters between parents, children, siblings, and other
relatives reveal the ways in which masculine norms were produced
through everyday interactions and judgements, and help to
reconstruct the subjective experiences of elite masculinity in this
period. Man's Estate concentrates on four important periods in the
life-course for the reproduction of these masculine values:
schooling, university, foreign travel, and marriage and family
life. These illustrate that there is only limited evidence of
sharp-edged differences in values between generations in these
families, and that these changes appear not to correspond to the
deep 'hegemonic shifts' so often emphasized in existing accounts.
French and Rothery suggest that the fundamental distributions of
power and authority within Gentry families remained fairly
constant. Conventional ideas of male honour, virtue, reputation,
and autonomy were remarkably tenacious, and the continued stress on
family heritage, dynastic traditions, and the future security of
the family patrimony acted as a brake on changes in the training of
young English gentlemen. The research is based on over 4,000
letters drawn from 19 landed families across England between c.
1680 and c. 1900, and is the result of a three-year research
project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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