| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Don Herzog. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 559. $29.95.

In 1778, Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney, Hester Thrale, and Lady Ladd met for a conversation whose topic was chosen by Ladd: "the respect due from the lower class of the people." Her own contribution included the following: "I have no notion of submitting to any kind of impertinence: & I never will bear to have any person Nod to me, or enter a Room where I am, without Bowing" (pp. 474–75). Clearly she lived in a different world from the one I imagine most of us now inhabit. Respect was, it seems, due but did not need not be reciprocated. In the ideal society of the British upper classes, respect ascended but contempt descended, and it is contempt that this book is mostly about. . . .

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