Paul Langford (1945–2015)
Auteur de A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783
A propos de l'auteur
Paul Langford is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford Peter Borsay, University of Wales, Lampeter Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge Michael Duffy, University of Exeter David Hayton, Queen's University, Belfast David Hempton, Queen's afficher plus University, Belfast Joanna Innes, University of Oxford afficher moins
Œuvres de Paul Langford
The Oxford History of Britain: Volume 4: The Eighteenth Century and the Age of Industry (1992) 15 exemplaires
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume IV: Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780-1794 (2015) 3 exemplaires
THERE'S A WIDENESS IN GOD'S MERCY - Paul Langford Frederick Faber - Cello - Sheet Music (2014) 1 exemplaire
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover 1 exemplaire
Singin' the '70's! 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1945-11-20
- Date de décès
- 2015-07-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Études
- Monmouth School
Oxford University (Hertford College) - Professions
- historian
Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford - Organisations
- Lincoln College, Oxford (Rector)
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Decent overview of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. Hits the major points but does not go into details and is a little dry(or as a reviewer on the back of the book put it scholarly but very readable). A nice starting point if your interested in British history and it has a nice further reading list at the end of the book if you want to go deeper into the topics.
It's certainly short, but I'm not sure it's living up to the introduction part of the rubric. Especially near the beginning there have certainly been places where a few additional words of explanation would have been helpful. If not, a glossary would do.
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.
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- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 526
- Popularité
- #47,290
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 28
In it Langford offers a wide-ranging history of England from the accession of George II to the loss of the American colonies. He presents the era as a chaotic one, with the country still coping with the consequences of the Glorious Revolution, which let a deep impression upon politics and society. Though the aristocracy remained the dominant group in many respects, the author sees the middle class increasingly coming to play a vital role in English life as the century progressed. In an age of commercial prosperity, their”polite” values increasingly contested with those of the upper class, setting the stage for their gradual assertion as the dominant segment of society in the century that followed.
Langford’s book is an outstanding survey of Hanoverian England, one that draws upon an impressive range of scholarship. Though his main focus is on the politics and society of the period, very little escapes his coverage, as economics, art, and literature also are addressed within its pages. Though he presumes that his readers possess some prior knowledge of his subject (the mini biographies of people offered in footnotes in the old series are absent here), his analysis and arguments are clear and forcefully made. The understanding he provides of the era makes his book a critical resource on the subject, and a worthy successor volume to those from the venerable old series.… (plus d'informations)