Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; Preface: A personal memory of Alan Everitt; Introduction: The impact of the county community hypothesis; 1 Alan Everitt and The community of Kent revisited; 2 A convenient fiction? The county community and county history in the 1650's; 3 The cultural horizons of the seventeenth-century English gentry; 4 Fashioning communities: the county in early modern Wales; 5 The Restoration county community: a post-conflict culture
Conclusion: County counsels: some concluding remarksBibliography; Index