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This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns. The author provides a synthesis of social, economic and political changes in the year
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- Author
- Philip Jenkins, Philip Jenkins
- Publisher
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521521949
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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