TOWNS IN TUDOR AND STUART BRITAIN (Social History in Perspective Series)

by Jack, Sybil M

First Edition

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Book desription: New York: Palgrave (St. Martin's Press; Macmillan Press), 1996 xix, 236 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. This book explores the role that towns played in the transformation of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through overseas exploration and exploitation and the manipulation of the world economy. It argues that towns were the focal point for most of the critical struggles in the period, from religion to politics, and that they were increasingly the places in which educated and wealthy people liked to live their lives. As the percentage of people with experience of the urban lifestyle grew, social attitudes toward kin and neighbors were affected by the perspective of living in close contact with strangers. The author also examines the fierce urban competition for resources and describes how the treatment of individual towns as favored places enabled them to develop the economic leverage to monopolize certain functions. She suggests that a hierarchy in which some towns had specialized roles was beginning to appear. At the same time it is argued that the relationship between the towns and the central government was crucial to the development of a strong national government and that the complex interactions between the two has been underestimated. Light bumping to ends of spine, tiny split to paper covering of front board at lower edge, and a shallow gouge (does not penetrate paper covering of board) on front board. Dustjacket shows light overall wear, and a shallow gouge with a closed tear on the front.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 15 x 23 cm.

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