William Alexander Mackinnon

Books

On the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Public Opinion, in Great Britain and other parts of the world
Author

1828 - Saunders & Ottley [Publisher]

Full text available at Google Books.

According to Asa Briggs, 'Mackinnon was one of the first writers to relate the rise of the "middle classes" to the "progress of civilisation"'. Briggs, 'The language of "class" in early nineteenth-century England', in Essays in Labour History, ed. Asa Briggs and John Saville (rev. edn., London, Macmilllan, 1967), p. 57 n3; Briggs discusses the book, pp. 57-8.

Cf the later History of Civilisation (2 vols., London, 1846)


Further Information

Place
London