Description:
This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings. It deals in turn with the upper class, 'middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime, punishment and protest. The book, ends with an assessment of continuity and change across the century.
Review Quotes:
"'Professor Rule's credentials for undertaking this daunting task are, of course, impeccable xxx; he offers a judicious, up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to the prodigious expansion of eighteenth-century social and economic history.'"
"English Historical Review"