Society in Early Modern EnglandISBN: 978-0-7456-4129-4
Hardcover
248 pages
September 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- Major new contribution to our understanding of how, when and why the period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has been categorized as ‘early modern'.
- Interrogates the introduction of words like ‘modern' and ‘society' into English at this time and the connections between linguistic and social change.
- Reflects on the implications of these categorizations for contemporary debates about the nature of modernity.
- Written by a rising star in the field of history.