Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norforlk, England, 1540-1640.
David Zaret|Peter Shawn Bearman
Bearman (sociology, U. of North Carolina) shows how from the mid-16th to mid-17th century, kinship ties were replaced by client-patron relations as primary mechanism power within gentry English countryside, and that change laid groundwork for civil war. As gentr
Contemporary Sociology