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Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite. Chalus argues that the personal, social, and particularly the familial nature of eighteenth-century politics ...

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. This volume provides contextualized case studies that explore how contemporary urban residents experienced and deployed gendered urban spaces over an important period of modernization.

This collection of wide-ranging essays commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of Professor Paul Langford's seminal monograph, A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-1783, situating Langford's work in recent developments in the political, social, and cultural history of the eighteenth-century, both in Britain and throughout the world.