{"product_id":"society-in-early-modern-england-9780745641300","title":"Society in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative historical change, so much so that they have often been described as    early modern' - an epoch separate from    the medieval' and    the modern'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book aims high and deserves careful reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Trenchantly underscores the growing importance of sociability while challenging us to think about the work of words, and the vexed matter of periodization.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Phil Withington's book is important as it helps to refocus the debate away from the problematic 'modernisation' theories and unto a different battleground: historcal linguistics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Withington helps us to view the early modern period in a similar way to those who lived through it. He presents the reader with an interpretation of the early modern world that forces us to re-evaluate our preconceptions and to think about this period in terms not just of its history, but also of its language. Withington breathes new life into an often ill-defined historical period and changes the way in which we view 'Early Modern'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eParergon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSociety in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work that will command the attention of all scholars and students interested in the period. Dr. Withington reveals time and again that he is an adept thinker and careful reader, as well as a first-rate historian, as eager to struggle with conceptual problems as to analyse complicated source material. This book will force many to rethink their understanding of the early modern period and what it means, as well as the ways in which we imagine and categorise historical periods in general.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Hadfield, University of Sussex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Withington offers a broad geneaology of historians' use of the term 'early modern', and finds striking similarities with the ways that early moderns themselves had begun to describe their world. It is a notably fresh, wide-ranging and stimulating argument about the analytic value of the term and the disinctiveness of early modern society.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Braddick, University of Sheffield\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A rigorous and persuasive charting of key concepts and discourses which not only reformulates the significance of the 'early modern' period but also gives that period a new shape.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Wrightson, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Illustrations.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Early Modernity and its Malcontents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection One: The History of an Historical Category.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Victorian Struggle for Modern History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Concept of Early Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Two: Keywords.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: What did 'Society' Mean in Early Modern England?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: The Rise and Fall of 'Commonwealth'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: 'Modern' and the English Vernacular.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Three: Practice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: The Sociable Self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Colony and State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: We Really Are Modern.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404379431255,"sku":"9780745641300","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/society-in-early-modern-england-9780745641300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}