Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870 : A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Class, Paperback / softback Book

Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870 : A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Class Paperback / softback

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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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