Ian Christie here discusses the factors that influenced the widespread acceptance of the existing social and governmental structures in the face of much pressure for revolutionary change in 18th-century Europe. He points to the distribution of wealth among the lower and middle class, the growth of industry, social support offered by the poor law, and the success of self-help organizations as rays of social cohesion that counterbalanced stress with stability and fostered resistance to the winds of anarchy.
- ISBN10 0198200641
- ISBN13 9780198200642
- Publish Date September 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 236
- Language English