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Conflict and community in southern England : essays in the social history of rural and urban labour from medieval to modern times
- Title
- Conflict and community in southern England : essays in the social history of rural and urban labour from medieval to modern times / edited by Barry Stapleton.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stapleton, Barry.
- Description
- xvii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- This collection of essays is concerned with the lives of working people in both rural and urban environments in southern England from medieval times to the end of the nineteenth century. In communities across the south from at least the thirteenth century, conflict occurred between those in authority and their less well-off neighbours, either peasants or proletarians. The causes of discord and disaffection varied over time and from place to place.
- In late medieval times the declining feudal system caused tension, as lords sought to keep control of serfs. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries rising inflation, leading to increased poverty and rioting, especially in urban centres, replaced feudalism as a cause of discontent. This, in turn, was followed by the growth of a rural proletariat as the peasantry of southern England were converted into a rural wage-dependent labour force earlier than in northern industrial towns.
- Associated with this change, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, came the problems of hunger, poverty, migration and crime. Attempts by both urban and rural authorities to impose social control on all those they regarded as inferiors only served to aggravate further the already volatile situation.
- . All these aspects are dealt with in this volume, helping to widen our understanding of the process and costs of social and economic change in southern England. This important new book will be of major interest to the social, economic and labour historian, as well as to those concerned with local and regional history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Popular disorder in Southern England, 1250-1450 / D.G. Watts -- The lords and their tenants: Conflict and stability in fifteenth-century Wiltshire / J.N. Hare -- Ẁild as colts untamed': Radicalism in the Newbury area during the early-modern period / C.G. Durston -- Marriage, migration and mendicancy in a pre-industrial community / B. Stapleton -- Labour consciousness and industrial conflict in eighteenth-century exeter / J. Rule -- Rite, legitimation and community in Southern England, 1700-1850: The ideology of custom / R.W. Bushaway -- Popular protest and social crime: The evidence of criminal gangs in rural Southern England 1790-1860 / R. Wells -- The scum of Bath: The Victorian poor / G. Davis -- Master and man: Farmers and employees in nineteenth-century Gloucestershire / C. Miller -- The peasantry in nineteenth-century England: A neglected class? / M. Reed -- Net fishermen and the salmon laws: Conflict in late Victorian Devon / J.H. Porter.
- ISBN
- 0312086113
- 9780312086114
- 0750901616
- 9780750901611
- LCCN
- 92018693
- OCLC
- ocm26096818
- 26096818
- SCSB-9018425
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library