Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems
- 1 The economy of manufacture
- 2 A universal merchant to the world: the political economy of commerce and finance
- 3 The ambiguities of free trade
- 4 The reach of the state: taxation
- 5 The age of localism
- 6 The public, the private and the state: civil society 1680–1880
- 7 Exclusion and inclusion: the political consequences of 1688
- 8 Exclusion and inclusion: defending the politics of finality 1832–1885
- 9 The stabilities and instabilities of elite authority: social relations c.1688–c.1880
- Afterword
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems
- 1 The economy of manufacture
- 2 A universal merchant to the world: the political economy of commerce and finance
- 3 The ambiguities of free trade
- 4 The reach of the state: taxation
- 5 The age of localism
- 6 The public, the private and the state: civil society 1680–1880
- 7 Exclusion and inclusion: the political consequences of 1688
- 8 Exclusion and inclusion: defending the politics of finality 1832–1885
- 9 The stabilities and instabilities of elite authority: social relations c.1688–c.1880
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- British Society 1680–1880Dynamism, Containment and Change, pp. x - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999