Hanoverian London 1714 - 1808

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Hanoverian London, 1714 - 1808, the first of eight volumes to be published in The University of California Press History of London series, surveys the life of the town throughout the eighteenth century. Professor Rudé outlines the main themes in the development of the metropolis, and deals with every aspect of the life of the greatest capital in Europe : the physical growth of the town both as capital and as residential area; economic life and communications; social classes, social life, and the arts; the small traders, craftsmen, wage-earners and the poor; religion and the churches; government and administration, and the functions and authority of a bewildering medley of controlling and contending bodies; the rôle of London in the political and economic life of the nation; the machinery of political manipulation; the almost continuous opposition to Court and government; the outbreaks of social protest 'from below'; trade unions, strikes, industrial riots and 'the mob'; the emergence of Radicalism and the phenomenon of Wilkes; the changing pattern of London during the French Wars and on the brink of the nineteenth century.