1 option
Exeter, 1540-1640 : The Growth of an English County Town / Wallace T. MacCaffrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCaffrey, Wallace T., author.
- Series:
- Harvard Historical Monographs
- Harvard Historical Monographs ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amministrazione locale--Exeter--Storia--1540-1640.
- Amministrazione locale.
- Geschichte Europas.
- Exeter (England)--Economic conditions.
- Exeter (England)--Politics and government.
- HISTORY / General.
- HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European.
- Local Subjects:
- Exeter (England)--Economic conditions.
- Exeter (England)--Politics and government.
- HISTORY / General.
- HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
- Edition:
- 2nd ed. Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Life in a provincial capital is the subject of this study of Exeter during the Elizabethan and early Stuart ages. The author offers new insight into the way the English middle-class lived and the way in which Tudor policy achieved its aims in the provinces. During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. Wallace MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities. Taking the inclinations and actions of the local figures as his points of departure, the author discusses such great issues of the age as the Reformation, the war with Spain, and the monarchy, and examines how often they were pushed aside or subordinated to local affairs. Although the local citizen body had no part in national policy making, it was called upon to participate in carrying out the directives which came from London; it did carry out these policies, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. In writing this detailed study, MacCaffrey has drawn on hitherto unused files from the records of the city.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- TABLES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Setting: Geographical and Historical
- Chapter Two. The Framework of Government: Legal and Political
- Chapter Three. The Framework of Government: Fiscal
- Chapter Four. The Structure of Social Control
- Chapter Five. Education
- Chapter Six. The Community in Action
- Chapter Seven. The Trade of Exeter
- Chapter Eight. The Reformation in Exeter
- Chapter Nine. The Civic Community and the Royal Government
- Chapter Ten. The Civic Community: A Synthesis
- Appendices
- Bibliographical Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
- Maps
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-86493-X
- OCLC:
- 979747598
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.