The origins of modern English society /

"In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of a new form of class society in Victorian England, which differed radically from early modern society. He locates the origins of the modern English class system in the Industrial Revolution, the impact of which went...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perkin, Harold James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
1800-1899
Social classes > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Classes sociales > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social classes
Social conditions
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The More than Industrial Revolution
  • II. The Old Society
  • 1. A Classless Hierarchy
  • 2. Property and Patronage
  • 3. A Dynamic Society
  • III. The Social Causes of Industrialism
  • 1. Society and the Ancillary Causes
  • 2. Society and the Economic Factors
  • 3. The Problem of Timing
  • IV. The Revolution in Social Organization
  • 1. The Rise in the Scale of Organization
  • 2. 'Petty's Law'
  • V. The Social Consequences of Industrialism
  • 1. The Revolution in Living Standards
  • 2. Industrialism and the Family
  • 3. Urbanization and Society
  • VI. The Birth of Class
  • 1. Industrialism and Class Conflict
  • 2. 'The Abdication on the Part of the Governors'
  • 3. The Midwife of Class
  • 4. The Delayed Birth
  • VII. The Struggle between the Ideals
  • 1. The Entrepreneurial Ideal
  • 2. The Working-Class Ideal
  • 3. The Revival of the Aristocratic Ideal
  • 4. The Forgotten Middle Class
  • VIII. The Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Ideal
  • 1. The Moral Revolution
  • 2. The Battle for the Mind
  • 3. The Battle for the State
  • 4. The Professionalization of Government
  • IX. The Rise of a Viable Class Society
  • 1. The Role of Religion
  • 2. The Institutionalization of the Middle Class
  • 3. The Institutionalization of the Working Class
  • X. Entrepreneurial Society: Ideal and Reality
  • 1. Progress and Poverty
  • 2. The Emerging Plutocracy
  • 3. The Decline of the Entrepreneurial Ideal.

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