Transforming English Rural Society: The Verneys and the Claydons, 1600–1820
Author(s): John Broad (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: June 7, 2004
Language: English
Print length: 312 pages
ISBN-10: 052182933X
ISBN-13: 9780521829335
Book Description
John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, demonstrating the family’s rise to wealth as motivated by a strong dynastic imperative. He reveals how the family managed its estates to maximize income and used its wealth to transform the Claydon villages and landscape, creating a pattern of “open” and “closed” parishes. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in English social, economic and demographic history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is essentially an excellent case study of the ways a middle-ranking Buckinghamshire gentry family responded to the changes in English political, economic, social, and cultural life across two turbulent centuries that witnessed the transition to modernity. It is a book that delivers far more than its author promises, itself a rare feat in these times.” Robert G. Ingram, Ohio University, Sixteenth Century Journal
“Broad has now set the family firmly in both the rural setting that they did so much to transform and define and in the context of early modern agricultural improvement and change, much to the benefit of us all.” – James Rosenheim, Texas A&M University
“Broad’s mastery of the Verney archive and of the intricacies of financial and estate management is such that historians will consider his work authoritative.” Norma Landau, Journal of Modern History
Book Description
An exploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
About the Author
John Broad is Principal Lecturer in History at the London Metropolitan University.
Transforming English Rural Society: The Verneys and the Claydons, 1600–1820
Author(s): John Broad (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: September 24, 2007
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 312 pages
ISBN-10: 0521041988
ISBN-13: 9780521041980
Book Description
John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, demonstrating the family’s rise to wealth as motivated by a strong dynastic imperative. He reveals how the family managed its estates to maximize income and used its wealth to transform the Claydon villages and landscape, creating a pattern of “open” and “closed” parishes. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in English social, economic and demographic history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is essentially an excellent case study of the ways a middle-ranking Buckinghamshire gentry family responded to the changes in English political, economic, social, and cultural life across two turbulent centuries that witnessed the transition to modernity. It is a book that delivers far more than its author promises, itself a rare feat in these times.” Robert G. Ingram, Ohio University, Sixteenth Century Journal
“Broad has now set the family firmly in both the rural setting that they did so much to transform and define and in the context of early modern agricultural improvement and change, much to the benefit of us all.” – James Rosenheim, Texas A&M University
“Broad’s mastery of the Verney archive and of the intricacies of financial and estate management is such that historians will consider his work authoritative.” Norma Landau, Journal of Modern History
Book Description
An exploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
About the Author
John Broad is Principal Lecturer in History at the London Metropolitan University.
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