MEN, WOMEN AND PROPERTY IN ENGLAND, 1780-1870 by R. J. Morris ( 9780511495953 )

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Title:

MEN, WOMEN AND PROPERTY IN ENGLAND, 1780-1870
A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF FAMILY STRATEGIES AMONGST THE LEEDS MIDDLE CLASS

By:

R. J. Morris

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0511495951

ISBN 13:

9780511495953

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 July, 2009

Description:

This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain.

Synopsis:

This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated. The result is a significant contribution to the history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding.

Illustrations:

79 tables

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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