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A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? - England 1783-1846 (Paperback)
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A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? - England 1783-1846 (Paperback)
Series: New Oxford History of England
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This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the
country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having
just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once
more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest
power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has
sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the "first industrial
revolution." In the meantime it survived a decade of invasion
fears, and emerged victorious from more than twenty years of "war
to the death" against Napoleonic France. But if Britain's external
fortunes were in the ascendant, the situation at home remained
fraught with peril. The country's population was growing at a rate
not experienced by any comparable former society, and its
manufacturing towns especially were mushrooming into filthy,
disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the
phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. It is no wonder
that these years should have experienced the most prolonged period
of social unrest since the seventeenth century, or that the elite
should have been in constant fear of a French-style revolution in
England.
The governing classes responded to these new challenges and by the
mid-nineteenth century the seeds of a settled two-party system and
of a more socially interventionist state were both in evidence,
though it would have been far too soon to say at that stage whether
those seeds would take permanent root. Another consequence of these
tensions was the intellectual engagement with society, as for
example in the Romantic Movement, a literary phenomenon that
brought English culture to the forefront of European attention for
the first time. At the sametime the country experienced the great
religious revival, loosely described under the heading
"evangelicalism." Slowly but surely, 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."
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