The period 1530-1780 witnessed the making of modern English society. Under the Tudors, England was a society of subsistence agriculture, in which it was taken for granted that a fully human existence was possible only for the landed ruling class. By 1780, England was a national market on the threshold of industrial revolution, and the ideology of self-help had permeated into the middle ranks. A universal belief in original sin had been supplanted by the romanticism of "man is good". And the first British Empire had already been won and lost. In this study, the author analyzes the complex interaction of economic, political and cultural change that went into this transformation in British society.
- ISBN10 0297748564
- ISBN13 9780297748564
- Publish Date August 1967
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English