Author : David W. Howell
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Discusses rural and social conditions of the poor in eighteenth-century Wales.
Author : Alysa Levene
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040244033
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.
Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : 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 : OUP Oxford
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0191583200
This volume takes a thematic approach to the history of the eighteenth century in the British Isles, covering such issues as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and change, and social and demographic structure and growth. Paul Langford heads a leading team of contributors, to present a lively picture of an era of intense change and growth in which all parts of Britain and Ireland were increasingly bound together by economic expansion and political unification.
Author : Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1472508939
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and 'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of this absorbing period of British history.
Author : Marion Löffler
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1783161027
This is essential reading for anybody who wishes to be fully informed of the British Revolution debate and/or teach the history of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment in Great Britain. All Welsh texts are translated, which makes them accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Four illustrations, among them the first political cartoon in the Welsh language, add valuable visual material and information.
Author : R. Houston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1137394099
This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author : Alun Withey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1847795080
Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches and methodologies, it makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history, including economies of knowledge, domestic medicine and care, material culture and the rural medical marketplace. Drawing on sources from probates to parish records, diaries to domestic remedy collections, Withey offers new directions for recovering the often obscure medical worldview of the ‘ordinary’ person. This innovative study will appeal to anyone interested in the social history of the early modern period. Its multi-disciplinary approach will appeal to a broad spectrum of academics and scholars, and will enhance a range of courses and modules both in medical history and in social history more widely.
Author : Murray G. H. Pittock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521030277
Redefinition of the Augustan age as a 'four nations' history using popular literary sources.
Author : Toby Christopher Barnard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300103090
"Through such everyday articles as linen shirts, wigs, silver teaspoons, pottery plates and engravings, Barnard evokes a striking variety of lives and attitudes. Possessions, he shows, even horses and dogs, highlighted and widened divisions, not only between rich and poor, women and men, but also between Irish Catholics and the Protestant settlers. Displaying fresh evidence and unexpected perspectives, the book throws new light on Ireland during a formative period. Its discoveries, set within the context of the 'consumer revolution' gripping Europe and North America, allow Ireland for the first time to be integrated into discussions of the pleasures and pains of consumerism."--BOOK JACKET.
