The Profligate Son: Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England
Autor Nicola Phillipsen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2015
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199687541
ISBN-10: 0199687544
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 16pp b&w plates
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0199687544
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 16pp b&w plates
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A tale of juvenile folly turning into serious crime is afforded by Nicola Phillips's splendid The Profligate Son ... which charts the boy's chosen path to its sordid and inevitable end and in the process makes an age come wonderfully alive.
Nicola Phillips tells this colourful tale well, but she also takes the opportunity at various points to describe the context in which the Jacksons moved. There is much to be learned in this book about the duties that a father was thought to owe to a son and vice versa; about the workings of the law, particularly in relation to debtors; about the process of transportation; and about the government of a colony in its earliest days. It is the work of an historian with a sure-footed knowledge of the period, and one who understands the value of archival research.
The engine of this book is its author's empathy, but Phillips also has an eye for detail ... There is so much to admire here ... Phillips is an excellent historian.
It's a very sad story: Phillips tells it impeccably, in racy parts interspersed with compelling accounts of daily life in debtors prisons; she evokes and explains the illusionary and illusory nature of credit. She writes brilliantly about the high roller's descent into low life; about how society looked both ways, to money and to morals (how familiar is that?); about the nuances of fraud, forgery and great expectations.
A white-knuckle ride into the abyss of the Regency Underworld.
This book is a cautionary tale of absorbing and unremitting decadence, criminal and otherwise... It is the work of an historian with a sure-footed knowledge of the period, and one who understands the value of archival research.
Nicola Phillips tells this colourful tale well, but she also takes the opportunity at various points to describe the context in which the Jacksons moved. There is much to be learned in this book about the duties that a father was thought to owe to a son and vice versa; about the workings of the law, particularly in relation to debtors; about the process of transportation; and about the government of a colony in its earliest days. It is the work of an historian with a sure-footed knowledge of the period, and one who understands the value of archival research.
The engine of this book is its author's empathy, but Phillips also has an eye for detail ... There is so much to admire here ... Phillips is an excellent historian.
It's a very sad story: Phillips tells it impeccably, in racy parts interspersed with compelling accounts of daily life in debtors prisons; she evokes and explains the illusionary and illusory nature of credit. She writes brilliantly about the high roller's descent into low life; about how society looked both ways, to money and to morals (how familiar is that?); about the nuances of fraud, forgery and great expectations.
A white-knuckle ride into the abyss of the Regency Underworld.
This book is a cautionary tale of absorbing and unremitting decadence, criminal and otherwise... It is the work of an historian with a sure-footed knowledge of the period, and one who understands the value of archival research.
Notă biografică
Nicola Phillips is an expert in gender history and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Politics at Kingston University. Her first book was on women in business from 1700 to 1850, and her research focuses on eighteenth-century gender, work, family conflict, and criminal and civil law. Nicola is also an advocate of public history. A co-founder of Kingston University's Centre for the Historical Record, she is also a member of the National Archives User Advisory Group and the Historical Association's Public History Committee, and has acted as a historical consultant for the National Trust, the Royal Mail, and Addidi Wealth Ltd. She has also contributed to radio and TV programmes on gender history.