ISBN:
9780511470585
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxvi, 353 pages)
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DDC:
305.5/232/094297
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Geschichte 1600-1700
;
Geschichte 1640-1790
;
Geschichte 1640
;
Geschichte
;
Wirtschaft
;
Gentry / Wales / Glamorgan / History / 17th century
;
Gentry / Wales / Glamorgan / History / 18th century
;
Elite (Social sciences) / Wales / Glamorgan
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Adel
;
Gentry
;
Glamorgan (Wales) / Economic conditions
;
Glamorgan (Wales) / Social conditions
;
Großbritannien
;
Glamorgan
;
Glamorgan
;
Gentry
;
Geschichte 1640-1790
;
Glamorgan
;
Adel
;
Geschichte 1640-1790
;
Großbritannien
;
Geschichte 1640
Abstract:
This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns. The author provides a synthesis of social, economic and political changes in the years prior to industrialisation. Political changes are studied in detail, and the changing role of political parties and ideologies is examined. Then, after a comprehensive study of the activities and attitudes of the gentry, the book concludes by attempting to explain precisely why Britain should have led the world in the twin processes of industrialisation and modernisation
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511470585
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