Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century

by Jeremy Boulton

Book Overview

This book is a pioneering social and economic study of a London suburban parish in the seventeenth century, which sheds new light on the important but relatively neglected topic of London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the inhabitants of the district in local government and church...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521021308
• ISBN13: 9780521021302
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"