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Article: A Mad, Bad, & Dangerous People? England 1783-1846.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2007
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A Mad, Bad, & Dangerous People? England 1783-1846. By Boyd Hilton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxvi plus 757 pp. $45).
Hilton's questioning whether Englishmen who lived during the years 1783-1846 deserved the label 'mad, bad, and dangerous' neatly encapsulates the substance of the latest volume in The New Oxford History of England series. The author makes the case that during the late eighteenth and early and middle years of this 'long nineteenth century' the unruly 'crowd'(which has garnered so much attention in recent English historiography) gradually became a 'respectable society'. This remarkable change was rooted in despair from having lost ...