Local economies and material culture : trends on early modern Berkshire, 1650-1750

This thesis investigates how far the 'middling sort' of people in early modem England expressed a collective identity through material culture. It assumes that material culture (buildings, household furnishings, domesticated crops and animals) is an active agent in the expression of social...

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Main Author: Wooders, Jameson D.
Published: University of Reading 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.552986