Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. xxvi+758(last blank), 12 plates, text figures, chronology, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split, with short closed tear at foot of back flap fold; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006. First edition. The New Oxford History of England series. *A history of 'the most prolonged period of social unrest since the seventeenth century. Population was growing at a rate not experienced by any comparable former society, and manufacturing towns were mushrooming into filthy, disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. The governing class, in constant fear of a French-style revolution, was forced to engage with social problems to an unprecedented extent' [wrapper blurb].

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Bookseller: Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 171059
Title: A MAD, BAD, AND DANGEROUS PEOPLE? England 1783-1846
Author: Hilton, Boyd
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 2006

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