Langford, Paul

Englishness identified : manners and character, 1650-1850 by Paul Langford ( Book )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 635 libraries worldwide

The writings and speeches of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke ( Book )
50 editions published between 1980 and 2000 in English and held by 475 libraries worldwide

The excise crisis : society and politics in the age of Walpole by Paul Langford ( Book )
4 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 441 libraries worldwide

Public life and the propertied Englishman, 1689-1798 by Paul Langford ( Book )
9 editions published between 1991 and 1998 in English and held by 395 libraries worldwide

A polite and commercial people : England, 1727-1783 by Paul Langford ( Book )
21 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in English and held by 305 libraries worldwide
"Conventional views of the eighteenth century emphasize its political stability, aristocratic government, stately manners, and Georgian elegance. Professor Langford, however, also brings to life a less orderly world of treasonable plots, rioting mobs, and Hogarthian vulgarity. Using the latest research, and a wealth of original sources, often generously quoted, he tells a highly readable tale of remarkable contrast and changes. Pitt, Fox, and Walpole rub shoulders with Dr. Johnson, Pope, and Fielding. This book shows the vitality and variety of an age often seen in static terms. This was, above all, a period of rapid commercial growth and burgeoning bourgeois pretensions. Many characteristic features of eighteenth-century life were the result. They included military success and imperial expansion, political maturation and economic development, cultural confidence and polite manners. But there were also tensions and contradictions. Evangelical enthusiasm jostled with scientific rationalism, oligarchical politics with popular insubordination, entrepreneurial opulence with plebeian poverty, sentimentality with utilitarian reform. Professor Langford examines all these features and explains the way they relate to each other. He demonstrates that this was a society constantly being stretched by change, and perpetually responding to its challenge."--BOOK JACKET.

Walpole and the Robinocracy by Paul Langford ( Book )
6 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 226 libraries worldwide

Eighteenth-century Britain : a very short introduction by Paul Langford ( Book )
6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 184 libraries worldwide
First published as part of "The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain", Paul Langford's brief guide to 18th-century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.

Eighteenth-century Britain by Paul Langford ( Book )
3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide

The eighteenth century and the age of industry by Paul Langford ( Book )
2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 49 libraries worldwide

The eighteenth century 1688-1815 ( Book )
3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide