The enormous growth of London during the early modern period brought with it major social problems, yet, as Steve Rappaport demonstrates in this innovative study, Tudor London was essentially a stable society, subject to stress but never seriously threatened by widespread popular unrest or other forms of instability. Professor Rappaport looks once again at the nature, causes, and effects of the principal threats to the capital's stability in the sixteenth century - the threefold increase in population, the economic impact of such demographic expansion, the substantial rise in prices and the inequitable distribution of wealth and power - and concludes that historians have hitherto exaggerated the severity of such problems and over-simplified their effects.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Social structure-- England-- London-- History-- 16th century.
Structure sociale-- Angleterre-- Londres-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Social structure.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
London (England), Economic conditions, 16th century.
London (England), Social conditions, 16th century.
London (England), Economic conditions, 16th century.
London (England), Social conditions, 16th century.