Religion and society in a Cotswold vale : Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 / Albion M. Urdank
1990, First Edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #431981
ISBN: 0052006670
Physical description; xvii, 448 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index. Contents; Structure of communal life -- Community of the vale: Landscape and settlement -- Hinterland of the vale: Landownership and tenure -- Churches and chapels: The pattern of religion -- Manors, parishes, and dissent: The structure of politics -- From community to society -- Birth, death, migration, and dissent -- Capital and labor in the industrial revolution -- Class formation and the growth of social stability -- Contrasting communities: Two case studies in dissent -- An "introversionist sect": Nailsworth's Society of Friends -- Secularization and the Shortwood Baptist Church -- Conclusion: The impact of the industrial revolution -- Synchronicity? Local changes in the industrial revolution. Subjects; 1700-1899. Geschichte 1780-1865. Economic history. Social conditions. Evangelicalism.
Nonconformists. Nailsworth (England) Church history 18th century.
Nailsworth (England) Church history 19th century.
Nailsworth (England) Social conditions.
Nailsworth (England) Economic conditions.
England Nailsworth.
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