British Society 1680–1880: Dynamism, Change and Containment. By Richard Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 349. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper.

Abstract

How long is a century? In British history, the answer is rarely a hundred years. The last two decades of historiography have extended the eighteenth century deep into the nineteenth. In his new book, Richard Price both develops and modifies this tendency by suggesting that the two centuries from 1680 to 1880 constitute a single phase in the broad sweep of British history.