A Companion to Eighteenth-Century BritainThis authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe.
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| Title | A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Volume 14 of Blackwell Companions to British History |
| Editor | H. T. Dickinson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1405149639, 9781405149631 |
| Length | 592 pages |
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