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..
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.