The Culture of Capital : Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England 9781135205683, 9780415929240

Of Bondage Debt, Property and Personhood in Early Modern England.

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Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England 9781501733598

Enclosure—the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture—has long been considered a cri

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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England 9781442683600

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of

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Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England 9780804779913

Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England 9780754665809

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Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England 9780812208221

Focusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens

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The Practical Renaissance: Information Culture and the Quest for Knowledge in Early Modern England, 1500–1640 9781350200203, 9781350200241, 9781350200234, 9781350200210

What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England 9780226583525

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from

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Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England 0691006946, 9780691006949

This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture

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Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England 9780812203172

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men a

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