British society, 1680-1880 : dynamism, containment, and change / / Richard Price [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454798203321
• Autore: Price Richard <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• ISBN: 1-107-11722-4; 0-511-04809-2; 1-280-15448-9; 0-521-65701-6; 0-511-11768-X; 0-511-15070-9; 0-511-60575-7; 0-511-30311-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306/.0942
• Soggetti: Great Britain Economic conditions 18th century; Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century; Great Britain Social conditions 18th century; Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems; 1 The economy of manufacture; 2 A universal merchant to the world: the political economy of commerce and finance; 3 The ambiguities of free trade; 4 The reach of the state: taxation; 5 The age of localism; 6 The public, the private and the state: civil society 1680...1880; 7 Exclusion and inclusion: the political consequences of 1688; 8 Exclusion and inclusion: defending the politics of finality 1832...1885; 9 The stabilities and instabilities of elite authority: social relations c.1688...c.1880Afterword; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Richard Price here offers a sweeping interpretation of modern British history. He challenges the dominant assumption that the nineteenth ; century marked the beginning of modern Britain. British Society argues on the contrary that nineteenth-century British society was the extension of an earlier era whose main themes first appeared in the late seventeenth century and which continued to shape the social, economic and political history of the country until the end of the nineteenth century. This book casts light on the main themes of economic, political and social history, and offers alternative interpretations on questions and issues that are central to the history of modern Britain. It follows in the great tradition of works such as Briggs's Age of Improvement, and Perkin's Origins of Modern English Society, and will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of the period.