England in Transition 1789 - 1832: A Study of Movement (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE No other period of equal length has witnessed so great a change in the political and social life of England as that which extends from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the passing of the Reform Bill; and the object of this work is to distinguish and illustrate the forces-the economic, but especially the spiritual and intellectual forces-which combined to bring about that result. I have endeavoured to trace the development in earlier years of a liberal and humane spirit, and, whilst indicating the general features of transition, to show how this spirit was crushed but not extinguished in the struggle with Republican France, revived in the more spacious atmosphere of the Napoleonic War, was again imperilled by the disorder and repression which followed the Peace, and finally, in the last ten years of the period, came rapidly to fruition. As on a former occasion, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Carnegie Trust for the Scottish U ni versi ties

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CONTENTS'; INTRODUCTION; Features of transition; antecedents; England under the 'Vhig oligarchy; Revolt of the kingship; George III; And of the people ; John Wilkes; Middlesex and parliamentary reform ; Attitude of the Whigs; The economical reform movement, I780; Pitt as a parliamentary reformer; L-ib-e-ralism-in the·counties --;::-~ ~ Political speculation; Rousseau •; Its EnghSli representatives, Priestley and Price; The philanthropic movement; its High Church phase ; Charity Schools; Bray; Berkeley; Oglethorpe ; Social reform; drunkenness; marriage; The Foundling Hospital ; Jonas Hanway; parish infants; Prison reform; Neild; Howard; Methodism; Kingswood School; ~he slave trade; and slavery ; Divergent religious views ; Granville SharpJhe pioneer of abolition; T~~ ~dustrial ~evolu~ ; E vangeIiCa1-phdanthtopy ; Sunday Schools; PAGE; I; 2; 3; 4; 6; 8; II; 12; 14; IS; 16; 18; 2I; 22; 26; 28; 28; 30; 32; 34; 36; 37; 40; 42; 43 CHA