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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      May 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511522772
      9780521892216
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522772
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.749kg, 468 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (7)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (7)
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    The enormous growth of London during the early modern period brought with it major social problems, yet, as Steve Rappaport demonstrates in this innovative study, Tudor London was essentially a stable society, subject to stress but never seriously threatened by widespread popular unrest or other forms of instability. Professor Rappaport looks once again at the nature, causes, and effects of the principal threats to the capital's stability in the sixteenth century - the threefold increase in population, the economic impact of such demographic expansion, the substantial rise in prices and the inequitable distribution of wealth and power - and concludes that historians have hitherto exaggerated the severity of such problems and over-simplified their effects. Professor Rappaport's researches suggest that the institutional superstructure of the capital was more adaptable, its small social organisations more resilient, and opportunities for social mobility far greater than many historians have acknowledged. Worlds Within Worlds combines sophisticated quantitative analysis with vivid empirical detail, and mounts a major challenge to much current thinking about urban life in early modern Britain.

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