Transforming English rural society : the Verneys and the Claydons, 1600-1820 /
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| Author / Creator: | Broad, John, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 292 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time ; 40 Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time ; 40. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5208002 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on editorial practice
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Re-Establishing a Gentry Family 1600-1657
- 2. A gentry family in county and court society 1603-1642
- 3. The Civil War and Interregnum 1642-1657
- 4. The creation of an enclosed estate 1600-1657
- Part II. The Shaping of Family and Village 1657-1740
- 5. Land, business and dynastic advance 1657-1736
- 6. The making of a modern landed estate
- 7. Power in the community - the making of an estate village 1660-1740
- Part III. The Great Estate and Estate Communities c. 1700-1820
- 8. The rise and fall of Verney fortunes in the eighteenth century 1740-1820
- 9. Transforming the Claydons in the eighteenth century
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendix A. Sir Ralph Verney's confessional letter of 1650
- Appendix B. The genealogy of the Verney family
- Bibliography
- Index