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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Georgians
    sub title: the deeds and misdeeds of 18th-century Britain
  name:
    name part: Corfield, P. J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 470 pages, [16] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world's first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life and Britain's role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life-politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People's responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.
  table of contents: Preface -- Part I. The Georgians debating an age of change. Introducing the Georgians ; Locating the Georgians at home and abroad ; Georgian voices of gloom ; Georgian voices of optimism -- Part II. The Georgians experiencing change in daily life. Sharing family lives between private and public worlds ; Exploring sexualities ; Gaining literacy and numeracy ; Redefining religion and irreligion -- Part III. The Georgians ruling and resisting. Negotiating political power 'indoors' ; Participating in public life 'out of doors' ; Seeking social solutions at home ; Encountering the world and its people -- Part IV. The Georgians in social ferment. Aristocrats, plutocrats and cross-class gentlemen ; Middlocrats ; The advent of the workers ; The allure of celebrities and meritocrats -- Part V. The Georgians viewed long. Georgians in an age of experimentation ; Georgians in an age of urbanisation ; Georgian deeds and misdeeds -- Calendar of Georgian commemorations.
  note: Penelope J. Corfield.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: DA485 .C67 2022
  classification: 941.07
  identifier: 9780300253573
  identifier: 0300253575
  identifier: 9780300265064
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210723
    record change date: 20220825133404.2
    record identifier: in00004592035