Eighteenth-Century English Society - Douglas Hay, Nicholas Rogers

Eighteenth-Century English Society

Shuttles and Swords
Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
1997
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289194-5 (ISBN)
48,60 inkl. MwSt
The long 18th century was characterized by the gradual erosion of consensual politics: the transfer from a cross-class consensus based on the Whig/Tory divide to divisions based instead on the notion that the state privileged the interests of certain social groups over others.
The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes. Yet it began with the welcoming of Prince William of Orange, whose coronation was widely celebrated as a move towards a more democratic state. Parliament and the courts were set to become a central feature of political life. But in 1819, fifteen men, women, and children were killed and over 400 injured when the yeomanry, directed by the magistracy, attacked the mass meeting for parliamentary reform at St Peter's Field, Manchester.

The long eighteenth century was characterized by the gradual erosion of consensual politics: the transfer from a cross-class consensus based on the Whig/Tory divide to divisions based instead on the notion that the state privileged the interests of certain social groups over others. This book draws together the implications of recent work on demography, labour, and law to assess their importance for defining those moments and places where class interests met and conflicted. By focusing on the experiences of the eighty percent of the population who made up England's `lower orders', Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers accord new significance to food shortages, changes in poor relief, use of the criminal law, and the shifts in social power caused by industrialization which would bring about the birth of working-class radicalism.

Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers are both Professors of History at York University, Ontario.

PREFACE 1. LANDSCAPES 2. HIERARCHY 3. THE POLITICS OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE 4. POLITICAL ORDER 5. HARVESTS AND DEARTH 6. CUSTOM 7. THE DISRUPTION OF CUSTOM, THE TRIUMPH OF LAW 8. NEW POPULATIONS 9. THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE 10. WAR AND PEACE 11. POPULAR BELIEFS AND POPULAR POLITICS 12. CLASS AND POWER IN HANOVERIAN ENGLAND FURTHER READING INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.5.1997
Reihe/Serie OPUS
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Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 197 mm
Gewicht 201 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-289194-4 / 0192891944
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289194-5 / 9780192891945
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