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Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914
Ten essays by scholars who have been influenced by the specialist in the history of British landed society, who retired in 1990. The topics include the rivalry between landed and other gentry, the Servants Tax of 1777, attitudes toward foreign farming, agricultural laborers and the third Reform Act in Suffolk, the political economy of death duties, the political extremism of Willoughby de Broke and Walter Long, golf and Edwardian politics, and mobility after the horse. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Rise of Respectable Society
'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain
For the quality of its research and the clarity of its synthesis, The Rise of Respectable Society will gain a reputation as an outstanding reinterpretation of the Victorian period.
English Landed Society Revisited
This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.
The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950
Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research and writing that it is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three complementary perspectives: those of regional communities, of the working and living environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
English Landed Society Revisited
This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.Volume 2Contents: Rural society and agricultural change in nineteenth-century Britain, from George Grantham and Carol S. Leonard (eds.), Agrarian organisation in the century of industrialisation: Europe, Russia, and North America (Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1989); Life after death: how successful nineteenth-century businessmen disposed of their fortunes, Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 43 (1990); English landed society in the twentieth century, 1, Property: collapse and surv...
The Rise of Suburbia
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Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture : Britain 1780-1980
The long-running debate on Britain's apparent economic decline in the last 120 years (not exactly noticeable in the living standards of ordinary people, which have risen enormously in that time) has generated a large economic and statistical literature and a great deal of heat in rival social and cultural explanations. The 'decline' has been confidently attributed to the permeation of the business elite by the anti-industrial and anti-commercial attitudes communicated by public schools and the old universities through their propagation of aristocratic and gentry values; and the readiness of the buiness elite to be thus permeated has been ascribed to the persistent tendency of new men of weal...
Born to Rule
This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who's Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used status, elite education, and powerful social networks to shape politics and cultural values. But what happens when elites begin to change--in what they look like, value, and how they position themselves?
Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837
A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.
