Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People

Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People

Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford

Gauci, Perry (VHH Green Fellow in British History, Lincoln College, Oxford); Chalus, Elaine (Professor of British History, Head of Department of History, University of Liverpool)

Oxford University Press

04/2019

288

Dura

Inglês

9780198802631

15 a 20 dias

This collection of wide-ranging essays commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of Professor Paul Langford's seminal monograph, A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-1783, situating Langford's work in recent developments in the political, social, and cultural history of the eighteenth-century, both in Britain and throughout the world.
Elaine Chalus and Perry Gauci: Introduction: Paul Langford (1945-2015) Politics 1: William A. Pettigrew: The Public Life and Death of a Propertied, but Artificial Person: The Divestment of the Royal African Company and a Reconciliation of Parliamentary Supremacy and the Sanctity of Property, 1747-52 2: Perry Gauci: East Meets West: John Paterson and the Politics of Improvement in Georgian London 3: Paul Seaward: Parliament Observed: The Gallery of the Old House of Commons 4: Cindy McCreery: The Sailor, the Lover, the Husband, and the King: Images of William IV and Change and Continuity in Visual Representations of Elite English society, 1765-1837 Society and Culture 5: Ian Doolittle: The City of London in the Eighteenth century: Corporate Pressures and their Consequences 6: Bob Harris: Fantasy, Speculation, and the British State Lottery in the Eighteenth Century 7: Hannah Barker: A Devout and Commercial people: Religion and Trade in Manchester during the Long Eighteenth Century 8: Rosemary Sweet: Antiquarian Transformations in Historical Scholarship: The History of Domesticity from Joseph Strutt to Thomas Wright Britain and the World 9: Peter Marshall: A Polite and Commercial People in the Caribbean: the British in St Vincent 10: Andrew O'Shaughnessy: British Imperial Policy and the American Revolution 11: Leslie Mitchell: The Harcourts: Anglo-French Relations in a Time of Revolution 12: Elaine Chalus: Becoming an Englishwoman: Gender, Politeness, and Identity in the Age of Revolutions 13: Joanna Innes: Afterword: Polite and Commercial's Twin: Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689-1789 A Bibliography of the Major Works of Paul Langford
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