Title British society, 1680-1880 : dynamism, containment, and change / Richard Price.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 349 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems; 1 The economy of manufacture; 2 A universal merchant to the world: the political economy of commerce and finance; 3 The ambiguities of free trade; 4 The reach of the state: taxation; 5 The age of localism; 6 The public, the private and the state: civil society 1680 ... 1880; 7 Exclusion and inclusion: the political consequences of 1688; 8 Exclusion and inclusion: defending the politics of finality 1832 ... 1885.
Summary	A sustained, radical new interpretation of British history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by a senior social historian confronting and questioning dominant interpretations. Scholars and students will find much of interest in this elegantly written and lucidly organised study.
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Subject	Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
	Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
	Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
	Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Sociaal-economische geschiedenis.
	Großbritannien.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Other Form:	Print version: Price, Richard, 1944- British society, 1680-1880. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521651727 (DLC) 99011993 (OCoLC)40714351
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