ISBN10: 0199218919, ISBN13: 9780199218912, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2008-06-19, [Oxford]] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

[Oxford] OUP OXFORD 2008 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 0199218919, ISBN13: 9780199218912, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. 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 victoriousfrom 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'spopulation 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 ...
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Paperback / softback. New. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how 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'. ISBN 0199218919 9780199218912 [GB]

ISBN10: 0199218919, ISBN13: 9780199218912, [publisher: Oxford University Press Jun 2008] Softcover Neuware - 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 victoriousfrom 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 itsmanufacturing 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 ...

ISBN10: 0199218919, ISBN13: 9780199218912, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover First Edition 2008. 1st Edition. Paperback. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how 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'. Series: New Oxford History of England. Num Pages: 784 pages, 8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1116. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0199218919, ISBN13: 9780199218912, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover 2008. 1st Edition. Paperback. Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how 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'. Series: New Oxford History of England. Num Pages: 784 pages, 8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1116. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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