Social history, local history, and historiography

By R. C. Richardson

Subjects: World, HISTORY, Historiography, History, Social & cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Social change

Description: This wide-ranging volume collects together twelve of the author's longer essays, mainly drawn from those first published in the last two decades. Chiefly consisting of micro-studies of a variety of different aspects of early modern English history, the book concerns itself with social and economic change, the period of the English Revolution and its long-lasting impact, with Puritanism, with the family as a social institution, and with historical consciousness and different forms of historica ...