POLITE CONSUMPTION: SHOPPlNG IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

Cattle plague in eighteenth-century England.

T He. social and economic impact of those recurrent human disasters of pre-industrial society ~ plague, famine and war ~ have received considerable attention in recent years. Animal diseases have had much less coverage since they were rarely systematically reported in the past. However, cattle plague, or distemper of the horned cattle as it was commonly known, was the subject of considerable go...

Patient's progress: doctors and doctoring in eighteenth-century England

statements of early reformers are not analysed on their own terms, and their awareness of social conditions is played down. The possibility that even the most disinterestedly benevolent reformer may have had to emphasize continuing discipline in order to give his views any credibility is not considered. There is an over-emphasis on continuity, making the story repetitious and ignoring modificat...

The nature of provincial medical practice in eighteenth-century England.

When one looks at the history of the medical profession in eighteenth-century England, the striking feature is the extent to which historians have concentrated on the minority of famous and distinguished medical men, mostly in London, and how little is known of the much more numerous rank-and-file practitioners of provincial England. This paper is part of a study that attempts to redress the ba...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe