Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People
Chalus, Elaine / Gauci, Perry
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.