The Origins Of Modern English Society: 1780-1880
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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In a landmark work of British social history, Harold Perkin's The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780–1880 presents a sweeping and incisive account of the century that transformed England from a rural, aristocratic society into the world's first industrial nation. Perkin chronicles the seismic shifts in class structure, labour relations, and social ideology that unfolded between the era of revolution and the high Victorian age, arguing that the rise of industrial capitalism did not merely change how people worked, but fundamentally reconstructed who they were and how they understood themselves within society. Drawing on a vast range of historical evidence, Perkin illustrates how competing class ideals — aristocratic, entrepreneurial, and working-class — came to define the social and political battlegrounds of the nineteenth century, with the entrepreneurial ideal ultimately emerging triumphant. His analysis is both structurally rigorous and richly detailed, situating economic change within the lived realities of ordinary men and women. A foundational text in the study of modern British society, this work raises questions about the nature of social formation and cultural power that remain urgently relevant today.
Author: Harold Perkin
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a landmark work of British social history, Harold Perkin's The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780–1880 presents a sweeping and incisive account of the century that transformed England from a rural, aristocratic society into the world's first industrial nation. Perkin chronicles the seismic shifts in class structure, labour relations, and social ideology that unfolded between the era of revolution and the high Victorian age, arguing that the rise of industrial capitalism did not merely change how people worked, but fundamentally reconstructed who they were and how they understood themselves within society. Drawing on a vast range of historical evidence, Perkin illustrates how competing class ideals — aristocratic, entrepreneurial, and working-class — came to define the social and political battlegrounds of the nineteenth century, with the entrepreneurial ideal ultimately emerging triumphant. His analysis is both structurally rigorous and richly detailed, situating economic change within the lived realities of ordinary men and women. A foundational text in the study of modern British society, this work raises questions about the nature of social formation and cultural power that remain urgently relevant today.