Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams' seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history.
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"In identifying the culture of setting as a shared window onto awareness and experience in former times, all the contributors point to a very promising framework in which a refreshingly interdisciplinary enterprise of British studies could evolve." Carl B. Estabrook, Albion
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Between 1550 and 1850, how were the English people able to transform themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power? This book supplements Raymond Williams's seminal work on the country and the city by applying exciting new interdisciplinary perspectives on the question. During the great age of mercantilism, new conceptions of space, time, and social identity began to emerge that are still with us today. This collection of essays by major scholars looks afresh at central issues of early modern English history.
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In revisiting the literary and cultural terrain mapped out by Raymond Williams in The Country and the City (1973), this book seeks to connect Williams's analysis of urban and rural spaces with current critical concerns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal georgic, imperial georgic, civic portraiture, civic portraits, georgic mode, georgic revolution, commercial map, militia reform, colonial poets, crown forests, capitalist space, gentleman planter, internal travel, landscape aesthetics, livery companies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wandering Jew, English Revolution, John Barrell, New Haven, City of London, Civil War, Raymond Williams, Upon Appleton House, Great Britain, West Indies, British Empire, English Literature, Politics of Landscape, West Indian, Farmer George, Karen O'Brien, Female Vagrant, Gerrard Winstanley, God Speed, Long's History, Lord Fairfax, Chatham Papers, Keith Thomas, Lyrical Ballads New!
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In revisiting the literary and cultural terrain mapped out by Raymond Williams in The Country and the City (1973), this book seeks to connect Williams's analysis of urban and rural spaces with current critical concerns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal georgic, imperial georgic, civic portraiture, civic portraits, georgic mode, georgic revolution, commercial map, militia reform, colonial poets, crown forests, capitalist space, gentleman planter, internal travel, landscape aesthetics, livery companies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Wandering Jew, English Revolution, John Barrell, New Haven, City of London, Civil War, Raymond Williams, Upon Appleton House, Great Britain, West Indies, British Empire, English Literature, Politics of Landscape, West Indian, Farmer George, Karen O'Brien, Female Vagrant, Gerrard Winstanley, God Speed, Long's History, Lord Fairfax, Chatham Papers, Keith Thomas, Lyrical Ballads New!
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- Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by William Wordsworth on 5 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 5 pages
- The History of Jamaica. Or, A General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island: With Reflections etc. Volume III (Research Library of Colonial Americana) by Edward Long on 4 pages
- Seventeenth Century (Galaxy Books) by Sir George Norman Clark on page 56, page 57, and page 72
- Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modern London by Joseph Ward in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 39
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- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 343, and page 636
- The Politics of Locality: Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture) by Hsin-Yi Lu on page 132, and Back Matter
- Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Desmond Harding in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of London: Governing an Ungovernable City (Government Beyond the Centre) by Tony Travers in Back Matter
- The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Published for the Institute of Early AME) by Eliga H. Gould on page 84
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