Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- MAPS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction 'Terms we did not understand': landscape, place and perceptions -- 1 Social relations and popular culture in early modern England -- CLASS AND SOCIAL HISTORY -- RETHINKING CLASS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND -- LOCAL CULTURES AND POPULAR CULTURES -- Part I THE STRUCTURES OF INEQUALITY -- 2 Economy and society in the Peak Country, c. 1520-1570 -- TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY -- LAND, WEALTH AND COMMUNITY -- LANDSCAPE AND POPULATION -- 3 Industrialization and social change, c. 1570-1660 -- POPULATION CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION -- ENCLOSURE AND COMMON RIGHT -- THE MINING INDUSTRY AND ITS WORKFORCE -- 4 The Peak Country as an industrial region, c. 1660-1770 -- THE ECONOMICS OF REGIONAL IDENTITY -- THE PRIORITIES OF CAPITAL -- POVERTY AND LABOUR -- 5 Social conflict and early capitalism -- THE PEAK COUNTRY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- CUSTOM AND ECONOMIC CHANGE -- Part II THE CONDITIONS OF COMMUNITY -- 6 'The memory of the people': custom, law and popular culture -- CUSTOM, LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND -- 'TIME OUT OF MEMORIE OF MAN': MINING CUSTOM IN THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- 'A KIND OF LEVELLING CUSTOM': THE OPPONENTS OF FREE MINING -- THE USES OF LITERACY: SPEECH, WRITING AND CUSTOM -- 7 The politics of custom -- LAW, ORDER AND THE SENSE OF THE PAST -- GENDER, PLACE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY -- 8 Community, identity and culture -- GENDER, WORK AND IDENTITY -- COMMUNITY AND LOCAL CULTURE -- THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE UNDERWORLD -- Part III THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT -- 9 'Pyllage uppon the poore mynorz': sources of social conflict, 1500-1600 -- LATE MEDIEVAL QUIESCENCE -- THE 'TROUBLESOME PEOPLE' OF THE TUDOR HIGH PEAK.

10 'All is hurly burly here': local histories of social conflict, 1600-1640 -- THE CONFRONTATION OVER FREE MINING IN THE WAPENTAKE OF WIRKSWORTH -- THE POLITICS OF A PARISH AND THE KING'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL -- THE 'ILLEGAL COMBINATIONS' OF THE HIGH PEAK -- RIOT, LITIGATION AND FREE MINING RIGHTS IN THE HIGH PEAK -- 11 The Peak in context: riot and popular politics in early Stuart England -- REDEFINING POPULAR POLITICS -- GENDER AND THE SOCIAL BASIS OF PLEBEIAN POLITICS -- TRADITIONS OF RESISTANCE -- 12 'Prerogative hath many proctors': The English Revolution and the plebeian politics of the Peak, 1640-1660 -- WAR AND ALLEGIANCE -- THE LEVELLERS, THE MINERS AND THE EIGHTH EARL OF RUTLAND -- THE TRANSFORMATION AND DEFEAT OF THE MINERS' POLITICAL PROJECT -- 13 The experience of defeat? The defence of custom, 1660-1770 -- CHANGING INTERESTS, CHANGING ALLIANCES -- RESISTANCE, PROTEST AND SURVIVAL -- 14 The making of the English working class in the Derbyshire Peak Country -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MANUSCRIPT SOURCES -- BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON -- CHATSWORTH HOUSE, BAKEWELL -- DERBY CENTRAL LIBRARY, DERBY -- DERBYSHIRE RECORD OFFICE, MATLOCK -- HOUSE OF LORDS RECORD OFFICE, LONDON -- JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER -- LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY, LONDON -- LICHFIELD JOINT RECORD OFFICE, LICHFIELD -- MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, MANCHESTER -- MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY, LONDON -- NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ARCHIVES OFFICE, NOTTINGHAM -- NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, NOTTINGHAM -- PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON -- SHEFFIELD ARCHIVES, SHEFFIELD -- CONTEMPORARY PRINTED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS -- NEWSBOOKS -- EDITIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTED WORKS, AND CALENDARS -- BOOKS AND ARTICLES -- UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS -- INDEX.

A social and economic history of class and popular politics in the early modern 'Peak Country' of Derbyshire.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.