English society, 1660-1832
Subtitle: religion, ideology, and politics during the ancien regime
By: J.C.D. Clark
Contributors: Clark, J. C. D.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1714; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800-1837; Great Britain -- Social conditions
Description: "This is a revised and extensively rewritten version of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book came at the opening of new phase in English historiography which questioned much of the received picture of English society as secular, modernising, contractarian and middle class; it began the recovery of the 'long eighteenth century', the period which saw a state form defined by the close relationship of monarchy, aristocracy and church.

In particular, it placed religion at the centre of social and intellectual life, and used ecclesiastical history to illuminate many historical themes more commonly examined in a secular framework. In its different and updated form, this book reinforces these theses with new evidence, and extends its arguments into fresh areas of enquiry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: English society, 1688-1832. 1985

Includes index