Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London - Brossura

Rappaport, Steve

 
9780521892216: Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London

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A study of urban life in early modern Britian which combines sophisticated quantitative analysis with vivid empirical detail.

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Descrizione del libro

Worlds Within Worlds combines sophisticated quantitative analysis with vivid empirical detail, and mounts a major challenge to much current thinking about urban life in early modern Britain.

Contenuti

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. The nature and extent of citizenship; 3. The growth of population; 4. Demographic growth and Tudor London's economy; 5. The standard of living; 6. The substructure of society; 7. Structural inequality; 8. Patterns of mobility; 9. Social stability in sixteenth-century London; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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9780521350655: Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521350654 ISBN 13:  9780521350655
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989
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