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In this boldly drawn portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. Roy Porter's new edition of his celebrated book of English cultural history was revised in light of changes in the climate of debate that occurred in the seven years after its first publication.
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"Covers a vast area of historical scholarship, both traditional and contemporary…His writing glows…and positively crackles when expressing the vigor and zest of what has been rightly called the age of exuberance."
Times Literary Supplement
"Offers a succession of vivid images of thought, politics, work culture, deviance, sex-life and smell of eighteenth-century Englishmen…It is the gusto, the vigor, and the fun that make this book."
Sunday Times
"A pioneering work."
Observer