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Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800 /

1403917647

9781403917645

b712764

Identity and agency in England, 1500-1800 /

[Book]

edited by Henry French & Jonathan Barry.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2004.

xi, 254 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

"Derives from papers given at a colloquium held at the University of Exeter in September 2002"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index.

Identity and agency in English society, 1500-1800 : introduction / Henry French with Jonathan Barry -- Civility, honesty and the identification of the deserving poor in seventeenth-century England / Steve Hindle -- Social inequality, identity and the labouring poor in eighteenth-century England / Peter King -- Honesty, worth and gender in early modern England, 1560-1640 / Alexandra Shepard -- A dynamic model of social relations : celibacy, credit and the identity of the 'spinster' in seventeenth-century England / Judith Spicksley -- Class and credit : social identity, wealth and the life course in early modern England / Craig Muldrew -- Sense and singularity : the social experiences of John Marsh and Thomas Stutterd in late-Georgian England / Helen Berry -- Agency, custom, and the English corporate system / Phil Withington.

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This collection of essays is arranged around the central issue raised by a raft of new empirical research - the relationship between social identity, or the 'vision of the self', and the ways in which this can explain historical agency.

Group identity-- England-- History, Congresses.

Marginality, Social-- England-- History, Congresses.

Social role-- England-- History, Congresses.

Social status-- England-- History, Congresses.

Group identity.

Marginality, Social.

Social conditions

Social role.

Social status.

Soziale Identität.

Soziale Rolle.

England, Social conditions, 16th century, Congresses.

England, Social conditions, 17th century, Congresses.

England, Social conditions, 18th century, Congresses.

England.

Großbritannien.

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Barry, Jonathan,1956-

French, Henry,1968-

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