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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 17 January 1991
- ISBN 9780198200666
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages478 pages
- Size 226x146x33 mm
- Weight 721 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 maps, 1 figure 0
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Short description:
The first intensive study of an industrial community in early modern England. Whickham, a village built on an underground mountain of coal in the north-east, was arguably Britain's first modern industrial society. The authors explore life in Whickham between 1560 and 1765 to assess the benefits and costs of the complex process of industrialization.
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This is the first intensive study of an industrial community in early modern England. Whickham, a village built on an underground mountain of coal in north-east England, was arguably Britain's first modern industrial society.
David Levine and Keith Wrightson employ the latest techniques of socio-historical research and make full use of a wide variety of contemporary sources to explore many aspects of life in Whickham between 1560 and 1765. They bring together vital strands - including industrial development, agrarian change, social stratification, demography, religion, work, leisure, living standards, kinship and the family - to produce a rounded and vivid picture, which throws into relief the achievements, benefits, and costs of the complex process of industrialization. The development of Whickham is set in the larger context of socio-economic change during this period. This is a major contribution to the history of early modern England.
`succeeds brilliantly ... is a remarkably rich book ... an entirely effective reconstruction of the life experience of Whickham's pitmen and their families. All social historians should read this book: doing so will reassure them that they are involved in a worthwhile exercise.'
J. A Sharpe, Social History Society Newsletter
Table of Contents:
List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Abbreviations; England's Peru: The industrial development of Whickham; A world turned inside out: Industrial development and agrarian change; Living by the benefit of coales: The anatomy of industrial society in Whickham; Sooty faces and Elysian shades: Social identities and social relations; Conclusion; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
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