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This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. He argues that these were essentially 'networked' families created and affirmed by a 'gift' network of material goods, finance, services and support, with property very much at the centre of middle-class survival strategies. His approach combines microhistorical studies of individual families with a broader analysis of the national and even international networks within which these families operated. The result is a significant contribution to the history, and to debates about the place of structural and cultural analysis in historical understanding.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870
• Subtitle: A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Class
• Author: R. J. Morris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460
• EAN: 9780521093460
• ISBN: 0521093465
• ID: 02021118
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 670 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. January 2009

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