The Growth of an English County Town
Author: Wallace Trevithie MacCaffrey
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Published: 1975
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ISBN-13: 9780674275010
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Author: Wallace Trevithie MacCaffrey
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674275010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wallace T. MacCaffrey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780674275010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife in a provincial capital is the subject of this study of Exeter during the Elizabethan and early Stuart ages. The author offers new insight into the way the English middle-class lived and the way in which Tudor policy achieved its aims in the provinces. During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. Wallace MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities. Taking the inclinations and actions of the local figures as his points of departure, the author discusses such great issues of the age as the Reformation, the war with Spain, and the monarchy, and examines how often they were pushed aside or subordinated to local affairs. Although the local citizen body had no part in national policy making, it was called upon to participate in carrying out the directives which came from London; it did carry out these policies, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. In writing this detailed study, MacCaffrey has drawn on hitherto unused files from the records of the city.
Author: Wallace MacCaffrey
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Published: 1975
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Chalklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-01-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780521667371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the growth and development of English towns when the proportion of the population living in towns rose from a sixth to a half. Chalklin surveys the demography, economy and social structure of market and county towns.
Author: Wallace T. MacCaffrey
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 311
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-10-03
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521204231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Industrial Revolution the attention of contemporaries was drawn inevitably towards conditions in the great manufacturing towns, a bias which most historical writing continues to perpetuate. By contrast, only scant attention has been paid to the development of older-established communities, although their stimulation during this period of transition is of compelling interest. County towns were by no means insulated from the broad currents of economic and social change at work in society, but in a large measure the forces of continuity and stability continued to shape their character. This detailed study of one of Britain's most notable historic towns concentrates on population growth by migration and natural increase, explores the course of marriage, birth and death rates, and concludes with an examination of household and family structure, based on the mid-nineteenth century census enumerators' returns.
Author: Wallace T. MacCaffrey
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Chalklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-01-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780521661416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the growth and development of English towns in the critical period between 1650 and 1850. Christopher Chalklin surveys market and county towns, port and manufacturing centers, new dockyard towns, spas and seaside resorts. He discusses house and public building, education, work and leisure activities, public duties and politics, and contrasts the emerging middle classes with the artisan and laboring masses. This concise study draws especially on recent publications incorporating new knowledge and interpretations. It will be a valuable resource for students of economic, social and urban history.
Author: Laquita M. Higgs
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780472108909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tudor period was a time of extremes when Henry VIII beheaded wives and Queen Mary executed non-Catholics. With the ascension of Protestant Elizabeth I to the throne, the borough of Colchester breathed relief and set about to establish a Godly society. Historian Laquita M. Higgs shows that Colchester provided one of the earliest illustrations of both the workings and tensions of Puritan town governance.
Author: Steven King
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1782381465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who “belonged,” and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations.