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Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century

By Boulton Jeremy

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780511560361, 0521021308, 9780521266697, 9780521021302
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2827455 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Pages
348\342
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is a pioneering social and economic study of a London suburban parish in the seventeenth century, which sheds new light on the important but relatively neglected topic of London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the inhabitants of the district in local government and church ceremonial. Throughout, social and economic features of the neighbourhood are compared to those found elsewhere in London, and in other towns and cities, in early modern England. The book will therefore be of interest to all concerned with the behaviour of the town dweller in the past, and will serve as a springboard for further historical studies of urban society.

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