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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.
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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.
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CULTURAL seismology - the attempt to record the shifts and displacements of sensibility that regularly occur in the history of art and literature and thought - habitually distinguishes three separate orders of magnitude. Read the first page
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CULTURAL seismology - the attempt to record the shifts and displacements of sensibility that regularly occur in the history of art and literature and thought - habitually distinguishes three separate orders of magnitude. Read the first page
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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Although jam-packed with details and contemporary quotations, far from being a dry academic work, Roy Porter's book brings the sights, sounds and (almost!) smells of the 18th Century to life.
The book's themes (which include Contrasts, The Social Order, Power, Politics and The Law) cover every aspect of social life, from the aristocracy to the poor, leaving the reader with a very vivid picture of English life.
Porter clearly knows his onions and puts his knowledge into print in an easy to read, frequently humourous, and always memorable fashion, leaving the reader both educated and entertained.
If there is just one book on this time period that you read, then this one needs very serious consideration.
The book's themes (which include Contrasts, The Social Order, Power, Politics and The Law) cover every aspect of social life, from the aristocracy to the poor, leaving the reader with a very vivid picture of English life.
Porter clearly knows his onions and puts his knowledge into print in an easy to read, frequently humourous, and always memorable fashion, leaving the reader both educated and entertained.
If there is just one book on this time period that you read, then this one needs very serious consideration.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Roy Porter, who died at the early age of 55, wrote this wonderful history and in many ways it is his memorial. It is comprehensive in its range, provides minute and often colourful details by way of illustration and examples of matters raised, and above all demonstrates an intimate and loving knowledge of the period. Moreover the book is both stylish and witty. A pleasure to read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I had an urge to learn about England in the 18th Century and this told me much about it. Not necessarily the big events we may have already heard of, but the background social/political changes that contributed to the big changes and led to the industrial revolution of the 19th Century and Britain's dominance of the world...
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