| Description |
1 online resource (166 pages) |
| Series |
Explorations in Local and Regional Histo |
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Explorations in Local and Regional Histo
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; Preface: A personal memory of Alan Everitt; Introduction: The impact of the county community hypothesis; 1 Alan Everitt and The community of Kent revisited; 2 A convenient fiction? The county community and county history in the 1650s; 3 The cultural horizons of the seventeenth-century English gentry; 4 Fashioning communities: the county in early modern Wales; 5 The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture |
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Conclusion: County counsels: some concluding remarksBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt--who advanced the fruitful notion of the "county community" during the 17th century--this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, this record evaluates the extraordinary impact of Everitt's book and the debate it provoked. Comprehensive and enlightening, this collection suggests future directions for research into the relations |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Country life -- England -- 17th century
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Country life -- Wales -- 17th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
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Country life
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England
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Wales
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hopper, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781907396779 |
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1907396772 |
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