Men, women, and property in England, 1780-1870: A social and economic history of family strategies amongst the Leeds middle classes

This is a 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 new reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted...

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מחבר ראשי: Morris, R J
פורמט: ספר
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Cambridge University 2013
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גישה מקוונת:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/34882
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סיכום:This is a 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 new 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 of the middle classes, to economic, business, urban and gender history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding.