Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland

Type

E-Book

Authors

Braddick ( Michael J Braddick )

ISBN 10

0521651638

ISBN 13

9780521651639

Tags

England, Social Sciences, Europe

Description

Addressing the dynamics of power in early modern societies, this book challenges the existing tendency to see past societies in terms of binary oppositions--such as male/female, rich/poor, rulers/ruled. Drawing on recent social theory, the essays offer a series of micro-sociologies of power in early modern society, ranging from the politics of age, gender and class to the politics of state-building in the post-Reformation confessional state. Its findings also have relevance for thinking about inequality in present-day societies. - from Amzon

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