Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760 (Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history: 1) [Revised ed.] 9780851159072

Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in a

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An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great

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David Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (1754-61)

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Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-ce

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An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's

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A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household This book is a detailed study of the dom

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A look at how ordinary English men and women responded to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creatio

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A study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlighte

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This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during the

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A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses fundamental questions about the character of English society du

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The study shows how the 1641 Irish Rebellion played an integral role in politicizing the English people and escalating t

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