Townspeople and nation : English urban experiences, 1540-1640 / Robert Tittler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tittler, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--England--History.

Cities and towns.

England.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

" We know much more about the court and the country in early modern England than we do about urban society and life. What Tittler . . . does successfully in this fine and innovative book is to tell us about this relatively hidden England and to give it a human face by discussing specific individual lives." - Paul S. Seaver, Stanford University " This brief book will enhance Robert Tittler' s reputation as a sensitive interpreter of the early modern English urban experience. . . . All of the stories are interesting and well told. . . . Robert Tittler has written a short, but fascinating book on English urban life from about 1540 to 1640. Everyone interested in early modern England will profit from reading it." - Renaissance Quarterly

Contents:

Browne, town, and crown: John Browne and the quest for crown lands in Boston

John Pitt and the building of the Blandford Forum town hall

John and Joan Cooke: civic portraiture and urban identity in Gloucester

Sir Thomas White of London: civic philanthropy and the making of the merchant-hero

Henry Manship: constructing the civic memory in Great Yarmouth

Henry Hardware and the face of Puritan reform in Chester

Swaddon the swindler and Pulman the "thief-taker": crime and variations in the great metropolis

Joyce Jefferies and the possibilities of spinsterhood in Hereford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804738688

0804738696

OCLC:

44869029