Author: WOOD, Andy.
Title: The politics of social conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770.
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 8vo. 354pp. Original purple cloth gilt, glassine-protected non price-clipped d/w. As new. Contents: Introduction: 'Terms we did not understand': landscape, place and perceptions -- 1. Social relations and popular culture in early modern England -- pt. I. The structures of inequality -- 2. Economy and society in the Peak Country, c. 1520-1570 -- 3. Industrialization and social change, c. 1570-1660 -- 4. The Peak Country as an industrial region, c. 1660-1770 -- 5. Social conflict and early capitalism -- pt. II. The conditions of community -- 6. 'The memory of the people': custom, law and popular culture -- 7. The politics of custom -- 8. Community, identity and culture -- pt. III. The politics of social conflict -- 9. 'Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz': sources of social conflict, 1500-1600 -- 10. 'All is hurly burly here': local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640 -- 11. The Peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England -- 12. 'Prerogative hath many proctors': the English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640-1660 -- 13. The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660-1770 -- 14. The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country.

Keywords: Local History Midlands Social conflict England Derbyshire History. SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture. Social conflict. Social conditions Arbeidersklasse. Cul


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