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A Polite and Commercial People - England 1727-1783 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A Polite and Commercial People - England 1727-1783 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: New Oxford History of England
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This book, the first volume to appear of the New Oxford History of
England, offers the most authoritative, comprehensive general
history of England between the accession of George II and the loss
of America. Though conventionally seen as static and politically
stable, the eighteenth century was an age of extraordinary vitality
and variety, of contrasts and change. Beneath the serene surface of
aristocratic government, stately manners, and Georgian elegance,
lay a less orderly world of treasonable plots, riotous mobs, and
Hogarthian vulgarity. While rapid commercial growth and burgeoning
bourgeois pretensions gave rise to the positive achievements of
military success and imperial expansion, cultural confidence and
polite manners, tensions and contradictions simmered and
threatened. Evangelical enthusiasm jostled with scientific
rationalism, oligarchical politics with popular insubordination,
entrepreneurial opulence with plebian poverty, sentimentality with
utilitarian reform. Using the most up-to-date research, Paul
Langford reveals the true character of the age, and demonstrates
that eighteenth-century society was both strengthened and stretched
by the changes to which it was subjected. THE NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF
ENGLAND series (General Editor: J. M. Roberts) The first volume of
Sir George Clark's Oxford History of England was published in 1934.
Over the following fifty years that series established itself as a
standard work of reference, and a repertoire of scholarship for
hundreds of thousands of readers. The New Oxford History of
England, of which this is the first volume, is its successor. Each
volume will set out an authoritative view of the present state of
scholarship, presenting a distillation of the new knowledge built
up by a half-century's research and publication of new sources, and
incorporating the perspectives and judgements of a new generation
of scholars. It is the intention of the General Editor and the
Publisher that shall worthily take the place of its predecessor as
the standard authoritative account of the national history and
achieve a similar classic standing.
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