Langbeschreibung
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Beggarman, thief, 1690-1713; 3. Protest and resistance, 1713-31; 4. Vestries, justices and their opponents: 1731; 5. Reformers and their discontents: 1748-63; 6. Finding a voice: 1763-76; 7. The State in chaos, 1776-89; 8. Epilogue, the 1790s; Bibliography.