British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems......Page 15
Narratives of economic change......Page 31
The dynamics of manufacturing......Page 36
The gendered division of labor......Page 53
Regionalism in the system of manufacture......Page 60
A distinct system......Page 66
The political economy of commercial imperialism......Page 68
The structures of finance......Page 81
Separate but functional: finance and manufacture in the political economy 1680–1880......Page 89
Free trade and the Victorian age......Page 102
The protectionist origins of free trade......Page 108
A fragile hegemony......Page 116
The moral economy of free trade......Page 124
Free trade and commerce: convergence and contingency......Page 129
Defining the Victorian state......Page 137
The reach of the state......Page 141
The structure of taxation......Page 150
Disruption of the traditional tax balance......Page 161
The central and the local in the British state......Page 169
The localist state of the eighteenth century......Page 173
Reform and the instabilities of localism......Page 181
Localism in the mid-Victorian state......Page 189
The end of localism 1870–1890......Page 199
Origins and definition......Page 206
The voluntarist public sphere......Page 208
Gender and the unstable boundary of the public and private spheres......Page 219
From c. 1680 to c. 1790......Page 220
From c. 1790 to c. 1830......Page 226
From c. 1830 to c. 1880......Page 231
Shifting boundaries in the late nineteenth century......Page 240
The ambiguities of 1688......Page 248
Exclusion and inclusion: 1688 to the 1830s......Page 253
The politics of contention......Page 265
Political stabilization and reform......Page 278
Finality abandoned: 1867 and the making of modern politics......Page 294
Class, populism and paternalism......Page 306
The roots of stability......Page 315
Instabilities of elite authority......Page 327
The coming of class relations......Page 343
Afterword......Page 350
Index......Page 357