The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales [Paperback]

Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt—who advanced the fruitful notion of the county community during the 17th century—this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt’s influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, this record evaluates the extraordinary impact of Everitt’s book and the debate it provoked. Comprehensive and enlightening, this collection suggests future directions for research into the relationship between the center and localities in 17th-century England.

Jacqueline Ealesis a professor in early modern history at Canterbury Christchurch University and the author ofPuritans and RoundheadsandWomen in Early Modern England, 1500–1700.Andrew Hopperis a lecturer in early modern local history at the University of Leicester and a coauthor ofNew Directions in Local History since Hoskins.This collection offers a significant new reassessment of the idea of the county community in 17th-century Britain put forward by emminent local historian Alan Everitt in the 1960s and 1970s.