The Origins of Modern English Society 1780-1880

Adam Smith agricultural amongst Anglican Anti-Corn Law League aristocracy average Bentham Benthamites Blackwood's Britain British capital capitalist cent chap charity Chartist Church civil class conflict Cobden competition Corn Laws cotton decline demand Dissenters domestic economic growth economists effect eighteenth century English society entrepreneurial ideal factory free trade G. D. H. Cole gentry History Ibid income increase Industrial Revolution institutions interest J. S. Mill James Mill John labour laissez-faire land landlords landowners living London Lord lower orders Malthus Manchester manufacturing ment merchants Methodist mid-Victorian middle class middle ranks moral movement nineteenth century old society organization Parliament Parliamentary paternal patronage political Poor Law population poverty principle production professional profits Radicals Reform religion rise schools social statistics Thomas tion Tory towns trade unions urban viable class society Victorian wages wealth Whigs workers working-class ideal