Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century write by Jeremy Boulton. This book was released on 2005-10-20. Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneering social and economic study, which sheds new light on London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the district's inhabitants in local government and church ceremonial.
The Middling Sort of People
The Middling Sort of People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middling Sort of People write by Jonathan Barry. This book was released on 1994-10-26. The Middling Sort of People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of essays seeks to offer a radical re-evaluation of most of our preconceptions about the early-modern English social order. The majority of people who lived in early-modern England were neither very rich nor very poor, yet a disproportionate amount of historiography has been directed towards precisely these groups. This book intends to define the term 'middle classes' and treat them as active participants of history, rather than as a simple by-product rising and falling according to others' activities.
Migration, Mobility and Modernization
Migration, Mobility and Modernization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migration, Mobility and Modernization write by David J. Siddle. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Migration, Mobility and Modernization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost a hundred years the academic study of migration concentrated on evolving standardised models of migration behaviour based on data from censuses or the registration of births, marriages and deaths. More recently, it has been realised that such models fail to take into account the decision-making behind migration and that better understanding will come from study of the behaviour of individuals as well as aggregate numbers. In this book the imaginative use of alternative sources DS for example, apprentice books, guild and craft records, legal and court documents, diaries and biographies DS gives fresh insights into the processes of movement to reveal much more complex circulatory behaviour than the standard models derived from census and registration sources alone have suggested.The first chapter confronts the issue of rural mobility in post-famine Ireland and is followed by a study centred on Alpine rural families which built impressive networks across pre-industrial Western Europe. Two chapters focus on the particular characteristics of worker groups: mining families of south Lancashire during the period of rapid increase in coal production in the eighteenth century; and the organised mobility of skilled labour in nineteenth-century central Europe. Next, an imaginative and rigorous deployment of the techniques of family reconstruction and record linkage embracing a variety of sources (vital event registers, wills, port books, apprentice records) teases out the migration histories of those who settled in eighteenth-century Liverpool. There are two chapters on female migrant behaviour, drawing attention in the case of eighteenth-century Rheims to the opportunities and restrictions on the life of migrant women at different points in their lifecycles; and showing how poor women struggled to survive in nineteenth-century Dublin. The final chapter uses family histories assembled by numerous genealogists and family historians to challenge the orthodox view of direct stepwise migration from a smaller to a larger town in the urban hierarchy.
Courtship and Constraint
Courtship and Constraint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtship and Constraint write by Diana O'Hara. This book was released on 2002-10-04. Courtship and Constraint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of private and public negotiation, often fraught with anxiety. If completed successfully it brought respectability, the privileges of marriage and adulthood, and a stable union between socially, economically, and emotionally compatible couples. Using Kent church court and probate material dating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century, the book blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the making of marriage.
Locating Privacy in Tudor London
Locating Privacy in Tudor London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locating Privacy in Tudor London write by Lena Cowen Orlin. This book was released on 2007-12-13. Locating Privacy in Tudor London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a central role in some of the most important untold stories of sixteenth-century women.
