The period 1530-1780 witnessed the making of modern English society. Under the Tudors, England was a society of subsistence agriculture, in which it was taken for granted that a fully human existence was possible only for the landed ruling class. By 1780, England was a national market on the threshold of industrial revolution, and the ideology of self-help had permeated into the middle ranks. A universal belief in original sin had been supplanted by the romanticism of "man is good". And the first British Empire had already been won and lost. In this study, the author analyzes the complex interaction of economic, political and cultural change that went into this transformation in British society.
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 128 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-0-14-013748-4 (9780140137484)
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Part 1 - argument; 1530-1780. Part 2 From Reformation to revolution - national unification; the people; agriculture and agrarian relations; trade, colonies and foreign policy; industry and government economic policy; finance; religion and intellectual life; from peasants' revolt to revolution. Part 3 Revolution - the Civil War; the revolution in government; the agricultural revolution; the commercial revolution, empire and foreign policy; industry; the financial revolution; religion and the intellectual revolution. Part 4 From political to industrial revolution - society and politics; trade, empire and foreign policy; towards industrial revolution; factories and the working class; agriculture and agrarian relations; religion and intellectual life; retrospect.
