| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Price, Richard, 1944- British society, 1680-1880. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521651727 (DLC) 99011993 (OCoLC)40714351 |
| ISBN |
0511019661 (electronic book) |
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9780511019661 (electronic book) |
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0511048092 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511048098 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511150709 |
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9780511150708 |
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051111768X (electronic book) |
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9780511117688 (electronic book) |
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0511032862 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511032868 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780521657013 (paperback) |
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0521657016 (paperback) |
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9780521651721 (hardback) |
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0521651727 (hardback) |
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9780511605758 (electronic book) |
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0511605757 (electronic book) |
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