1st Edition
The Local Origins of Modern Society Gloucestershire 1500-1800
By David Rollison
Copyright 1992
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through a series of sharply focused studies spanning three centuries, David Rollison explores the rise of capitalist manufacturing in the English countryside and the revolution in consciousness that accompanied it. Combining the empiricism of English historiography with the rationalism of Annales , and drawing on ideas from a wide range of disciplines, he argues that the explosive implications of... Read more
Acknowledgements, Note on sources, method and perspectives, Introduction Country capitalism, Part I. Cradles of change, 1. CRADLES OF CHANGE: THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS, 2. TRAILS OF PROGRESS: THE REORIENTATION AND INTENSIFICATION OF TRAFFIC, 1600–1800, Part II. Neighbourhood to nation, 3. PROVERBIAL CULTURE, 4. TYNDALE AND ALL HIS SECT, 5. NEIGHBOURHOOD TO NATION: THE TROTMANS: A MIDDLE-RANK KIN-COALITION, 1512–1712, Part III. Two revolutionaries, 6. ‘SMALL THINGES AND GRANDE DESIGNES’: A REVOLUTIONARY’S HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 7. CUNNING MAN AND QUAKER: JOHN ROBERTS OF SIDDINGTON ST MARY, Part IV. The multitudes around us, 8. COMMUNITY AT THE BORDERS: MOCKERY AND MISRULE IN AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE, 9. ‘A CONCATENATION OF VICIOUS HABITS’: A SEASON OF RIOTS AND A PUBLIC DISCUSSION, 1738–41, 10. LASTING PREJUDICES: LANGUAGES OF SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION, Notes and references, Index
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David Rollison
`... a wonderfully insightful work, ... Rollison has written a major piece of suggestive scholarship ... The Local Origins of Modern Society is a book to be savoured and, I hope, one to be shared with all ranks; I recommend it enthusiastically.' - Social History
