Social Relations and Urban Space

Norwich, 1600-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84383-945-3
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 246 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London.

This is a book about seventeenth-century Norwich and its inhabitants. At its core are the interconnected themes of social topographies and the relationships between urban inhabitants and their environment. Cityscapes were, and are, shaped and given meaning during the practice of people's lived experiences. In return, those same urban places lend human interactions depth and quality. Social Relations and Urban Space uncovers manifold possible landscapes, including those belonging to the rich and to the poor, to men, to women, to 'strangers and foreigners', to political actors of both formal and informal means. Norwich's inhabitants witnessed the tumultuous seventeenth centuryat first hand, and their experiences were written into the landscape and immortalised in its exemplary surviving records. This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London.

FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williamson, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The City and the Parish
Claiming Public Space: Competing Perceptions
Separations and Intersections: The Norwich Strangers
Gendering the Streets: Men, Women, and Public Space
Political Landscapes
Conclusion: A City of Many Faces
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.