In the light of history

In the light of history

[1st American ed.].

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

272 p. : 22 cm.

942.07 P734 1973

(OCoLC)00574641

First published in 1972.|Contents: pt.1. The eighteenth century: Reason and unreason in the eighteenth century: the English experience -- Bedlam -- Henry Fielding and the rise of the novel -- The Spectator -- The royal porcelain craze -- British attitudes to the American Revolution -- The Great Revolution -- Edmund Burke and his cult -- Slavery, race and the poor -- Plantation power -- pt 2. In the light of history: Secular heretics -- Were they right? -- The woman's burden -- The dying family -- Children, the victims of time -- De Mortuis -- Games with a serious purpose -- Riot -- Their excellencies -- Clothes -- Angst -- The stars in their day -- Genealogy -- The anarchy of art -- A walk in Detroit -- pt. 3. Other times, other places: The world of Samuel Pepys -- The Victorians unbuttoned -- The Edwardians.|Includes bibliographical references.|76.1.192

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