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Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as `the Pacific' or `the Peaceable' because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much of the country's assets, while the end of his reign saw the creation of England's first national coinage, with firm fiscal control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred's dream of the West Saxon royal house ruling the whole of England, and, like his uncle King Æthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has been neglected by scholars, partly because his reign has been thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which the essays in this volume provide. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES, SHASHI JAYAKUMAR, C. P, LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE, JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO.

Edgar, --- Eadgar, --- Great Britain --- England --- Kings and rulers. --- History --- Kings and rulers --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- British Isles. --- Edgar. --- Historical Essays. --- History. --- King of the English. --- Medieval England. --- Medieval monarchy. --- Overlordship. --- Political Unity. --- Social and economic change. --- Socioeconomic Change. --- Tenth Century. --- Tenth century.

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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850's, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.

Sewing-machine industry --- Clothing trade --- Consumers --- J4300.80 --- J4456 --- J4520 --- Customers (Consumers) --- Shoppers --- Persons --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Machinery industry --- History --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Economy and industry -- manufacturing and production -- household consumer products --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- retail and consumption --- Singer Sewing Machine Company --- Singer Manufacturing Company --- Singer Company --- History. --- Sewing machines --- Clothing factories --- Machine sewing --- Equipment and supplies --- E-books --- Fashion industry --- Consumers - Japan - History - 20th century. --- 19th century japan. --- 19th century women. --- business infrastructure. --- company business profiles. --- consumerism history. --- corporate innovation. --- dress and textiles. --- east asia. --- fashion and clothing. --- female consumer. --- history of anthropology. --- history of capitalism. --- history of fashion. --- japan social history. --- japanese class structure. --- japanese females. --- japanese history. --- japanese role of women. --- japanese women. --- middle class. --- modern japan. --- sewing machine history. --- socioeconomic change. --- western dress. --- women in workplace.