Remaking English Society

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change.

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change.

A tribute to the work of Keith WrightsonRemaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years, these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and litigation; class and deference; labouring relations, neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.

STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is Reader in History, University of Glasgow.

JOHN WALTER is Professor of History, University of Essex.

Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle, Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton, Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood

The Making and Remaking of Early Modern English Social History - Steve Hindle and John D. Walter and Alexandra Shepard
Brokering Fatherhood: Illegitimacy and Paternal Rights and Responsibilities in Early Modern England - Alexandra Shepard
Gender, Sexuality and the Consumption of Musical Culture in Eighteenth-Century London - Helen M Berry
Where was Mrs Turner? Governance and Gender in an Eighteenth-Century Village - Naomi Tadmor
Local Arithmetic: Information Cultures in Early Modern England - Paul Griffiths
Intoxicants and the Early Modern City - Phil Withington
Food, Drink and Social Distinction in Early Modern England - Adam Fox
Written Obligations, Litigation and Neighbourliness, 1580-1680 - Tim Stretton
Witchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England - Malcolm J Gaskill
Deference, Paternalism and Popular Memory in Early Modern England - Andy Wood
Work, Reward and Labour Discipline in Late Seventeenth-Century England - Steve Hindle
Living in Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Terling - Henry French
From Commonwealth to Public Opulence: The Redefinition of Wealth and Government in Early Modern Britain - Craig Muldrew
Appendix: Bibliography of the Published Writings of Keith Wrightson from 1974 to 2011Compiled by Lindsay O'Neill - Lindsay O'Neill