An ordered society : gender and class in early modern England

Amussen's vivid account of family and village life in England from the reign of Elizabeth I to the accession of the Hanoverian monarchies describes the domestic economy of the rich and the poor; the processes of courtship, marriage, and marital breakdown; and the structure of power within the family and in rural communities. Booknews Reprint of the B. Blackwell original of 1988--which was included in the series Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Contents ......Page 5 Preface ......Page 7 List of abbreviations ......Page 10 Introduction ......Page 11 Political Households and Domestic Politics: Family and Society in Early Modern Thought ......Page 44 Families, Property and Family Economies ......Page 77 Gender Order in Families and Villages ......Page 105 The Ordering of Society ......Page 144 Conclusion: Gender, Class and Society ......Page 190 Selected Bibliography ......Page 200 Index ......Page 207 This is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography and domestic organization of the Tamang, the largest Tibeto-Burman-speaking population in Nepal. It describes how the Tamang are coping with an agricultural crisis brought about by population growth. It is nearly seventy years since Alice Clark wrote her classic study of the Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century.