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Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689-1798 - The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1990 (Hardcover, New)
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Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689-1798 - The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1990 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ford Lectures
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This book offers a major reassessment of the place of propertied
people in eighteenth-century England. Common views of politics in
this period postulate aristocratic dominance coexisting with
plebeian vitality. Paul Langford explores the terrain which lay
between the high ground of elite rule and the low ground of popular
politics, revealing the vigorous activity and institutional
creativity which prevailed in it. Dr Langford shows us a society in
which middle-class men and women increasingly enforced their social
priorities, vested interests, and ideological preoccupations. In an
age imbued with the propertied mentality, the machinery, formal and
informal, for managing public affairs was constantly revised.
Political and religious prejudices are shown in retreat before the
requirements of propertied association. Parliament appears as the
willing tool of interests and communities which were by no means
submissive to the traditional authority of the gentry. The nobility
is seen obediently adapting to the demands of those whom it sought
to patronize. This perceptive study makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century society and
politics.
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