
A Pleasing Prospect Volume 5
Social Change and Urban Culture in Eighteenth-Century Colchester
Shani D'Cruze(Author)
University of Hertfordshire Press
Published on 1. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-902806-73-0 (ISBN)
Description
Based on extensive primary-source research, this historical account considers the changing identity of 18th-century Colchester from the perspective of its "middling sort"-a section of society often attached to cultures of politeness and to the practices of consumption and production that helped shape economic change. Painstakingly reconstructing 18th-century social networks along lines of family, kinship, gender, spatiality, religion, and politics, this study examines the relationships between individual and family biographies while reflecting on provincial urban society and culture. The guide explores how Colchester capitalized on growth in agriculturally based industries-such as brewing, milling, and malting-and its role as an east-coast port and its participating in the urban renaissance and commodification of polite culture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hatfield
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-902806-73-0 (9781902806730)
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Person
Shani D'Cruze is an honorary reader in history at Keele University and the author of Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women.
Content
1. The business of living 2. Arteries 3. Status in stone 4. Acting out 5. Becoming polite 6. Kin and connexion 7. Our time in God's hands 8. Governmentality 9. Changing contexts