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Pbk. ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-212) and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Editorial foreword; I: Introduction: an Agenda for English Local History; II: The Significance of Kinship Networks in the Seventeenth Century: South-West Nottinghamshire; III: Town or Urban Society? St Ives in Huntingdonshire, 1630-1740; IV: Communities of Common Interest: the Social Landscape of South-East Surrey, 1750-1850; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
This work maps the cultural and physical divisions of medieval England. It concentrates on the level of hierarchy immediately above individual local societies, using detailed case studies of networks of linked communities in the East Midlands, the South and East Anglia. The societies studied are respectively on the periphery of a cultural province, central to another such province and linked closely to a major urban centre. The text is a synthesis of modern continental historical scholarship, social anthropological and geographical techniques, and English medieval history. Included in the inve. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
England -- History, Local -- Methodology.
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England. |
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Local history. |
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Methodology. |
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England -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Kinship -- England.
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Kinship. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Local history.
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| Added Author |
Phythian-Adams, Charles.
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Carter, Mary, 1934-
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Lord, Evelyn.
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Mitson, Anne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Societies, cultures, and kinship, 1580-1850. Pbk. ed. London [England] ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1996, ©1993 9780718500528 (OCoLC)37478033 |
| ISBN |
9780567647368 (electronic book) |
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0567647366 (electronic book) |
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