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The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560-1765

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The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560-1765 - Levine, David, PhD, PT, and Wrightson, Keith
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This is the first intensive study of an industrial community in early modern England. Levine and Wrightson employ the latest techniques of socio-historical research and make full use of a wide variety of contemporary sources to explore many aspects of life in Whickham between 1560 and 1765. They bring together vital strands--including industrial development, agrarian change, social stratification, demography, religion, work, leisure, living standards, kinship and the family--to produce a rounded and vivid picture, which ...

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The Making of an Industrial Society: Whickham, 1560-1765 1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198200666

Hardcover