1st Edition
Bath, 1680–1850 A Social History or A Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity
By R. S. Neale
Copyright 1981
482 Pages
by
Routledge
482 Pages
by
Routledge
482 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1981, Bath, 1680–1850 reveals the changing structure of society and its social values as shown in the expansion of the city.
The book examines the lives of men and women who lived in Bath and who, as consumers and producers, transformed it from a small Cotswold town built in the vernacular style, into a uniquely spacious Palladian city devoted to the well-being and leisure... Read more
Acknowledgements; 1: By way of introduction; 2: The company and the size of the market; 3: The laboruing population; 4: Landowners and peasants; 5: Stockjobbers; 6: Ideology and utopia; 7: Property and absolute self-interest; 8: Social structure and economic welfare; 9: The consciousness of the people: 1680-1815; 10: A radical utopia: 1812-47; Appendices; Notes; Name index; Subject index
Biography
R. S. Neale
