K. D. M. Snell

Parish and Belonging

Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700 1950

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Produktbeschreibung

A major study of local identities across early modern and modern British history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 892g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110754
• ISBN-10: 0521110750
• Artikelnr.: 26010083

Autorenporträt

K. D. M. Snell is Professor of Rural and Cultural History, Centre for English Local History, at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900 (1985) and Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction - belonging and local attachment
2. The culture of local xenophobia
3. Settlement, parochial belonging and entitlement
4. Rural societies and their marriage patterns
5. 'A cruel kindness': parish out-door relief, and the new poor law
6. Nailed to the church door? Parish overseers and the new poor law
7. Three centuries of new parishes
8. `Of this parish': gravestones, belonging and local attachment
9. Conclusion - belonging, parish and community
Select bibliography.