Urbane and Rustic England: Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces 1660-1780

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Manchester University Press, 1998 - 317 pages
The rapid growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban renaissance on villages and those ordinary people whose roots were in the countryside?
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
Communal institutions and localism20
20
Urban and rural spaces42
42
marriage and sex90
90
training and work110
110
dwellings and possessions128
128
Communication across the topographical divide226
226
IO The origins of modern suburbia253
253
CONCLUSION
276
INDEX307
307
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