The Middlemost and the Milltowns, Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Brian Lewis. The Middlemost and the Milltowns, Bourgeois Culture and Politics in Early Industrial England. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. viii, 580. $65.00. ISBN 0-8047-4174-3.

Why did early industrial Britain avoid revolution? How were early Victorian social relations stabilized? Although these questions have been asked for over a century, it is only in the last two decades that social historians have learned how to answer them. It is now recognized that they must be addressed, in the first instance, through local studies, by detailed investigations of ...

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