Albion's People

Download or read book Albion's People written by John Rule and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class, `middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime, punishment and protest. The book, which is as rich and varied as the age it explores, ends with an assessment of continuity and change across the century.