03560nam 2200721 a 450 991045192160332120200520144314.01-281-14717-60-19-156620-91-4356-1799-1(CKB)1000000000482303(EBL)422609(OCoLC)191027971(SSID)ssj0001146883(PQKBManifestationID)12490422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001146883(PQKBWorkID)11129844(PQKB)10045071(SSID)ssj0000195243(PQKBManifestationID)11937277(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195243(PQKBWorkID)10243514(PQKB)11775474(MiAaPQ)EBC422609(Au-PeEL)EBL422609(CaPaEBR)ebr10211783(CaONFJC)MIL114717(EXLCZ)99100000000048230320050914d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA mad, bad, and dangerous people?[electronic resource] England, 1783-1846 /Boyd HiltonOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (xxv, 757 pages)New Oxford History of EnglandDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-921891-9 0-19-822830-9 Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. ENGLAND 1783-1846: A PREVIEW; 2. POLITICS IN THE TIME OF PITT AND FOX, 1783-1807; 3. PITTISM AND PLUTOCRACY: THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS; 4. POLITICS IN THE TIME OF LIVERPOOL AND CANNING, 1807-1827; 5. RULING IDEOLOGIES; 6. THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER, 1827-1832; 7. CONTESTING MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY; 8. POLITICS IN THE TIME OF MELBOURNE AND PEEL, 1833-1846; 9. THE CONDITION AND RECONDITIONING OF ENGLAND; 10. AFTERWARDS: 'THERE ARE NO BARBARIANS ANY LONGER'; Chronology; Bibliography; IndexIn a period scarred by apprehensions of revolution, war, invasion, poverty, and disease, elite members of society lived in constant fear of what they thought of as the 'mad, bad, and dangerous people'. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, and how the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as 'Victorianism'. - ;This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, hNew Oxford History of EnglandNational characteristics, EnglishHistory19th centuryNational characteristics, EnglishHistory18th centuryGreat BritainHistoryGeorge III, 1760-1820Great BritainHistoryWilliam IV, 1830-1837Great BritainHistoryGeorge IV, 1820-1830EnglandCivilization19th centuryEnglandCivilization18th centuryElectronic books.National characteristics, EnglishHistoryNational characteristics, EnglishHistory941.07/3Hilton Boyd249366MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451921603321A mad, bad, and dangerous people2180149UNINA