A History of England in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Kirstin Olsen |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1999-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
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Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food and drink, behavior, hygiene, and other topics.
Author | : John Harold Plumb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This history of England in the 18th century is not a chronological narrative of ministries and wars, but a history of the development of English society; the ministries and wars, of course, have their place, but no greater a place than the economic, cultural, and social history of the time. The book is divided into three parts: the ages of Walpole, of Chatham, and of Pitt.
Author | : H. T. Dickinson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470998873 |
This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.
Author | : Paul Langford |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192853998 |
Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
Author | : David Spadafora |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300046717 |
The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
Author | : William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : T.S. Ashton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136586997 |
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and finance in eighteenth-century England. It throws light on economic fluctuations and on the changing conditions of the wage-earners. The approach is that of an economist and use is made of hitherto neglected statistics. But treatment and language are simple. The book is intended not only for the specialist but also for others who turn to the past for its own sake or for understanding the present. This book was first published in 1955.
Author | : David M. Turner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136304231 |
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what constituted ‘disability’ in eighteenth-century culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do their stories tell us about the social and cultural contexts of disability, and in what ways were these narratives and experiences shaped by class and gender? In order to answer these questions, the book explores the languages of disability, the relationship between religious and medical discourses of disability, and analyzes depictions of people with disabilities in popular culture, art, and the media. It also uncovers the ‘hidden histories’ of disabled men and women themselves drawing on elite letters and autobiographies, Poor Law documents and criminal court records. The book won the Disability History Association Outstanding Publication Prize in 2012 for the best book published worldwide in disability history and also inspired parts of the Radio 4 series, ‘Disability: A New History’, on which the author was historical adviser. The series gained 2.6 million listeners when it first aired in 2013.
Author | : Jacob Sider Jost |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813945062 |
Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting." Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections—from witty puns to deep structural analogies—among different spheres of eighteenth-century life. Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theaters, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To "be in the interest of" or "have an interest with" another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.