ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Written by Roy Porter
Published by Folio Society
in 1998
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Written by Roy Porter.
Stock no. 1830472
1st thus.
1998.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
A History of England series. Blue decorative cloth. B/w illustrations. 528 pages. Top edge blue. Foxing to edge of text block and also to frontis (pale). Small ink smudge to general editor's preface page to margin and over word 'provides'. Else contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- General Editor's Preface
- Introduction
- ENGLISH SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Contrasts
- II The Social Order
- III Power, Politics and the Law
- IV Keeping Life Going
- V Getting and Spending
- VI Having and Enjoying
- VII Changing Experiences
- VIII Towards Industrial Society
- IX Conclusion
- Statistical Tables
- PEOPLE IN POLITICS
- I George I
- II The Political Management of Sir Robert Walpole, 1720-1742
- III George II Reconsidered
- IV William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
- V King George III: A Study of Personality
- VI The Political System Under Stress: George III and the Politicians, 1760-1770
- VII Lord North
- VIII Charles James Fox
- IX Edmund Burke and the Enlightenment
- Further Reading
- Index