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The Penguin Social History of Britain : English Society in the Eighteenth Century
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Description
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Product details
- Paperback | 448 pages
- 129 x 198 x 19mm | 308g
- 04 Sep 1990
- Penguin Books Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised ed.
- tables, further reading, index
- 0140138196
- 9780140138191
- 166,517
Table of contents
Contrasts; the social order; power, politics and the law; keeping life going; getting and spending; having and enjoying; changing experiences; towards industrial society; conclusion.
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About Roy Porter
Roy Porter was, until his retirement, Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He died in 2002.
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