Public life and the propertied Englishman, 1689-1798 [electronic resource] /
Paul Langford.
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1991.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 608 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill., facsims.
- The Ford lectures ; 1990 .
- Ford lectures ; 1990. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A major reassessment of the place of the propertied class in 18th-century England, revealing a society in which the middle class increasingly enforced its social priorities, vested interests, and ideological preoccupations. The book should be of interest to students of politics and society.