TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacCaffrey,Wallace T.
TI  - Exeter, 1540-1640: The Growth of an English County Town, Revised Edition 
T2  - Harvard Historical Monographs
SN  - 9780674864924
AV  - DA690.E9 
U1  - 942.35 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Amministrazione locale - Exeter - Storia - 1540-1640
KW  - Amministrazione locale
KW  - Exeter
KW  - Storia
KW  - 1540-1640
KW  - Geschichte Europas
KW  - Exeter (England) -- Economic conditions
KW  - Exeter (England) -- Politics and government
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; TABLES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; Introduction --; Chapter One. The Setting: Geographical and Historical --; Chapter Two. The Framework of Government: Legal and Political --; Chapter Three. The Framework of Government: Fiscal --; Chapter Four. The Structure of Social Control --; Chapter Five. Education --; Chapter Six. The Community in Action --; Chapter Seven. The Trade of Exeter --; Chapter Eight. The Reformation in Exeter --; Chapter Nine. The Civic Community and the Royal Government --; Chapter Ten. The Civic Community: A Synthesis --; Appendices --; Bibliographical Essay --; Bibliography --; Index --; Maps; restricted access
N2  - Life in a provincial capital is the subject of this study of Exeter during the Elizabethan and early Stuart ages. The author offers new insight into the way the English middle-class lived and the way in which Tudor policy achieved its aims in the provinces. During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. Wallace MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities. Taking the inclinations and actions of the local figures as his points of departure, the author discusses such great issues of the age as the Reformation, the war with Spain, and the monarchy, and examines how often they were pushed aside or subordinated to local affairs. Although the local citizen body had no part in national policy making, it was called upon to participate in carrying out the directives which came from London; it did carry out these policies, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. In writing this detailed study, MacCaffrey has drawn on hitherto unused files from the records of the city
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