The Gentry in England and Wales 1500-1700
by: Felicity Heal and Clive Holmes

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st pbk., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 473 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period. It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artifacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves. Clean, bright copy.