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Book Synopsis English Society in the 18th Century by : Roy Porter
Download or read book English Society in the 18th Century written by Roy Porter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-09-04 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a picture of eighteenth-century England. It ranges from princes to paupers, and from the metropolis to smallest hamlet. It offers vivid images of the thought, politics, work and recreation of Englishmen at his time.
Book Synopsis English Society in the Eighteenth Century by : Roy Porter
Download or read book English Society in the Eighteenth Century written by Roy Porter and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
Author :Douglas Hay Publisher :Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :9780192891945 Total Pages :253 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (919 download)
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-century English Society by : Douglas Hay
Download or read book Eighteenth-century English Society written by Douglas Hay and published by Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes, as the lower classes rebelled against the state bias towards the interests of higher social groups. Drawing on recent work on demography, labor, and law, this readable history of the period focuses on the experience of the eighty percent of the population who made up England's "lower orders." Hay and Rogers provide fresh insights into food shortages, changes in poor relief, use of the criminal law, and the shifts in social power caused by industrialization that would bring about the birth of working-class radicalism.
Book Synopsis Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century by : Susan Naquin
Download or read book Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century written by Susan Naquin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era. "A lucid, original, and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic history of China's last great period of glory. This will be an important book for students of Chinese history."--Jonathan Spence, Yale University "Engaging, complex, and elegantly written. . . . Absorbing and valuable: a thorough, unique, and richly detailed account of the social forms and cultural and religious life of the people."--Choice " An] interesting and well-informed survey of China between about 1680 and 1820."--W.J.F. Jenner, Asian Affairs "I would be a very odd scholar or general reader who could not derive profit from reading this elegant and painstaking survey of the social, cultural, and economic life of the Qing empire in its apparent prime. . . . A superb survey which readers may absorb and cherish."--Alexander Woodside, Pacific Affairs "A highly readable synthesis of recent secondary literature on the subject."--William S. Atwell, Journal of Asian Studies "Their coverage is comprehensive and their writing is clear and lucid. reading this book obtains one a very broad, yet penetrative, view of Chinese society at the time."--Alan P.L. Liu, Asian Thought & Society "The ground covered by this book is vast. . . . Its very breadth conveys with great clarity the extent of current knowledge of premodern China: it also serves as an excellent introduction to the social history of the Qing dynasty."--Hugh D.R. Baker, China Quarterly "This is a most challenging work and ambitious work. . . . Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century give both the general reader and also the historian who does not study China a tool for grounding himself or herself in the basic patterns and trends that could be found in eighteenth century China as well as in the problems the specialists are now exploring. The book is also of great value to students of traditional and modern China, for it serves to synthesize much of the new literature on China in the High Qing. Thus it serves the 'China hand' as a state of the field essay that shows just where we are even as it suggests directions for future research."--Murray A. Rubinstein, American Asian Review "This excellent book provides an intelligent summary our rapidly changing understanding of Chinese society in a crucial century of political stability and economic and demographic expansion. Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski are distinguished contributors to the field, energetically engaged in its multinational communication networks."--John E. Wills, Jr., American Historical Review
Book Synopsis Daily Life in 18th-Century England by : Kirstin Olsen
Download or read book Daily Life in 18th-Century England written by Kirstin Olsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food and drink, behavior, hygiene, and other topics.
Download or read book City of Laughter written by Vic Gatrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
Book Synopsis Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India by : Robert Travers
Download or read book Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India written by Robert Travers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Book Synopsis English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Birth of a Consumer Society by : Neil McKendrick
Download or read book The Birth of a Consumer Society written by Neil McKendrick and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remaking English Society by : Alexandra Shepard
Download or read book Remaking English Society written by Alexandra Shepard and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.
Book Synopsis English Society of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Art by : Randall Davies
Download or read book English Society of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Art written by Randall Davies and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating the Empire written by Troy Bickham and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660–1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain—reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. Bickham reveals how trade in the empire’s edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the British Empire.
Book Synopsis The Culture of Sensibility by : G. J. Barker-Benfield
Download or read book The Culture of Sensibility written by G. J. Barker-Benfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-developed consciousness invested with spiritual and moral values and largely identified with women. How this change occurred and what it meant for society is the subject of G.J. Barker-Benfield's argument in favor of a "culture" of sensibility, in addition to the more familiar "cult." Barker-Benfield's expansive account traces the development of sensibility as a defining concept in literature, religion, politics, economics, education, domestic life, and the social world. He demonstrates that the "cult of sensibility" was at the heart of the culture of middle-class women that emerged in eighteenth-century Britain. The essence of this culture, Barker-Benfield reveals, was its articulation of women's consciousness in a world being transformed by the rise of consumerism that preceded the industrial revolution. The new commercial capitalism, while fostering the development of sensibility in men, helped many women to assert their own wishes for more power in the home and for pleasure in "the world" beyond. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility from struggles over self-definition within individuals and, above all, between men and women as increasingly self-conscious groups. He discusses many writers, from Rochester through Hannah More, but pays particular attention to Mary Wollstonecraft as the century's most articulate analyst of the feminized culture of sensibility. Barker-Benfield's book shows how the cultivation of sensibility, while laying foundations for humanitarian reforms generally had as its primary concern the improvement of men's treatment of women. In the eighteenth-century identification of women with "virtue in distress" the author finds the roots of feminism, to the extent that it has expressed women's common sense of their victimization by men. Drawing on literature, philosophical psychology, social and economic thought, and a richly developed cultural background, The Culture of Sensibility offers an innovative and compelling way to understand the transformation of British culture in the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by : Leslie Stephen
Download or read book English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by : Sir Leslie Stephen
Download or read book English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disability in Eighteenth-Century England by : David M. Turner
Download or read book Disability in Eighteenth-Century England written by David M. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making sense of their own experiences. In the process, it asks a series of related questions: what constituted ‘disability’ in eighteenth-century culture and society? How was impairment perceived? How did people with disabilities see themselves and relate to others? What do their stories tell us about the social and cultural contexts of disability, and in what ways were these narratives and experiences shaped by class and gender? In order to answer these questions, the book explores the languages of disability, the relationship between religious and medical discourses of disability, and analyzes depictions of people with disabilities in popular culture, art, and the media. It also uncovers the ‘hidden histories’ of disabled men and women themselves drawing on elite letters and autobiographies, Poor Law documents and criminal court records. The book won the Disability History Association Outstanding Publication Prize in 2012 for the best book published worldwide in disability history and also inspired parts of the Radio 4 series, ‘Disability: A New History’, on which the author was historical adviser. The series gained 2.6 million listeners when it first aired in 2013.
Book Synopsis Literature and Society in Eighteenth-century England, 1680-1820 by : William Arthur Speck
Download or read book Literature and Society in Eighteenth-century England, 1680-1820 written by William Arthur Speck and published by Addison-Wesley Longman Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main theme of this broad-ranging study is the interaction of ideology and literature in the "long eighteenth century," the period that runs from the late Stuarts to the age of Jane Austen and the Romantics. Professor Speck pays due attention to formal literatureto the public poetry of the age, both celebratory and satirical; to the theatre; and to the emergence of the novel as a key medium for political and social reflection. He considers the work of minor - and thus perhaps more truly representative - writers, alongside the unmistakably individual voices of a Swift, a Byron and an Austen, for what they can reveal of the eighteenth century's beliefs and prejudices as they talk amongst themselves of the matters that concerned them. However, the material he examines here goes far beyond the purely 'literary' to include newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, even the popular prints of artists and caricaturists like Hogarth, Gillray and Rowlandson. In the process, he makes his own contribution to advancing the current debates concerning continuity and change in the eighteenth century. The result is a book that will be of interest to social and political historians, literary analysts, and any reader interested in the culture and society of the Augustan Age.
