... economic transformation had the effect of increasing the number of skilled workers, the range of their skills, and a new cultural awareness of their positive role. The chapter also reviews how most Georgian Britons could detect obvious divergences between ‘refined’ and ‘low’ speech, as well...

... or different to scholars and readers who focus on slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic World, they will not be completely unfamiliar. In both cases, it is a story of epic social and cultural upheaval in the context of massive economic transformation in an increasingly globalized world....