| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 445 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-438) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Joseph Henry Oates: a world of madeira and honey; 2 In search of the British middle class; Labels, languages and discourses; Structures of material resource; Stories, narratives and histories; 3 Reading the wills: a window on family and property; The Leeds probate cohort, 1830-34; Law, custom and practice; Men and children; 4 The property cycle; Robert Jowitt, woolstapler; William Hey, surgeon: human capital and real estate; Choices; The mortgage men; John Jowitt's story. |
| Summary |
This is an innovative study of middle class behaviour and property relations in Georgian and Victorian England. Through the lens of wills, family papers, deeds, account books and letters, it offers a new reading of the ways in which middle class families surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle class -- England -- Leeds -- History.
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Middle class. |
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England -- Leeds. |
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History. |
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Middle class families -- England -- Leeds -- History.
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Middle class families. |
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Property -- Social aspects -- England -- Leeds.
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Property -- Social aspects. |
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Property. |
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Leeds (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Leeds (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morris, R.J. (Robert John). Men, women and property in England, 1780-1870. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521838088 (DLC) 2004049688 (OCoLC)55016451 |
| ISBN |
0511080794 (electronic book) |
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9780511080791 (electronic book) |
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0511121784 (electronic book) |
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9780511121784 (electronic book) |
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0511080034 |
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9780511080036 |
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0511079273 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511079276 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9786610163489 |
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6610163480 |
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9780521838085 |
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0521838088 |
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0521838088 (Cloth) |
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