9780415062671

Book Description: Routledge, London, 1993. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. Withdrawal stamp. xiii, 306 pages. Ex-Library. Bookseller Inventory # 009887

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Book Description: London and New York: Routledge, 1993 0415062675, 1993. First edition large octavo hardback xiv + 306 pp A little marginal annotation otherwise Very Good + condition in VG unclipped dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 47452

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Book Description: Routledge, London, 1993. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good Plus - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus - Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. pp 306. This is an ex-library bok with the usual library distinctions; otherwise very good. 'The wives and daughters of yoemen, husbandmen, labourers, craftsmen and tradesmen constituted over 90 per cent of the female population in pre-industrial centuries. Yet it is the sristocratic heiresses and wealthy dowagers who are well known today and seen as prototypes. This ground-breaking book reveals the day-to-day economic reality of the vast majority of women in the sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unused documents.reconstructs the lives of ordinary Englishwomen. She contrasts the written law of the land with the actual practice of people in the countryside. The complex and fascinating results completely revise the traditional picture of women's economic status in the early modern period. .research shows how women owned, managed and inherited many forms of property on a scale prviously unrecognised. Her analysis has far-reaching implications for our understanding of how early modern society actually worked.is essential reading for anyone interested in wom,en, law and the passt.'. Bookseller Inventory # 1008152

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Book Description: 1993. London, Routledge, (1993). Cloth, name on fly, pencil marginalia throughout much of text else v.g. in d/w, map, tables, illust., pp. xiii, 306. ISBN 0 415 06267 5. Bookseller Inventory # 85822

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Book Description: London: Routledge, 1993. 8vo., pp. xiii, 306. Black cloth; pencil scoring, a little shelf-wear, scratching and slight discolouration to dustwrapper. Near fine. Ownership inscription of Anthony Fletcher to f.f.e.p. Bookseller Inventory # 42349

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