England in the Eighteenth Century

This social history of England from the late Stuart settlement through the Napoleonic years treats the country as a commercial and hierarchical society rather than as a sequence of ministries. Porter describes the landed elite, the expanding middling ranks, and the labouring poor; the workings of parish, county, and parliamentary politics; and the everyday economies of farm, workshop, and town. He follows changes in family life, sex, religion, medicine, crime, and consumption, and the growth of London and provincial cities. War, empire, and the first industrial districts appear as pressures on this social order. The book is a portrait of how people lived and were governed between about 1688 and 1815.

Bound in dark blue buckram blocked with a gilt design. Dark blue slipcase with the series title in a pale blue panel on the front.