| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 CRADLES OF CHANGE; 2 TRAILS OF PROGRESS; 3 PROVERBIAL CULTURE; 4 TYNDALE AND ALL HIS SECT; 5 NEIGHBOURHOOD TO NATION; 6 'SMALL THINGES AND GRANDE DESIGNES'; 7 CUNNING MAN AND QUAKER; 8 COMMUNITY AT THE BORDERS; 9 'A CONCATENATION OF VICIOUS HABITS'; 10 LASTING PREJUDICES; NOTES AND REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
Explanations of the rise of industrial capitalism usually focus on urban centers, yet its origins lie in the late middle ages, in the flight of manufacturing industry from towns to rural districts. Habitually conceived and justified as a system of poor relief for landless households, rural industry created new social relations, pastoral disciplines, ideologies, and forms of communication. 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 accompanie |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Gloucestershire (England) -- Social conditions
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Gloucestershire (England) -- History
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| Subject |
England -- Gloucestershire
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203991497 |
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0203991494 |
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