The Penguin Social History of Britain

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

Roy Porter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

1990
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-013819-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Contrasts; the social order; power, politics and the law; keeping life going; getting and spending; having and enjoying; changing experiences; towards industrial society; conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.4.1990
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-14-013819-6 / 0140138196
ISBN-13	978-0-14-013819-1 / 9780140138191
Zustand	Neuware