The Memory of the People Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England |
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Author:
| Wood, Andy |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-72067-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $36.99 |
Book Description:
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This is a pioneering account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity in early modern England and of how ordinary people ordered their world. Andy Wood charts how custom and popular memory generated a usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources in the present.
This is a pioneering account of the intimate connection between landscape, place and identity in early modern England and of how ordinary people ordered their world. Andy Wood charts how custom and popular memory generated a usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources in the present.