A Companion to Eighteenth-Century BritainH. T. Dickinson John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 592 pages This 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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... Cambridge University and is now Reader in Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Evangelical Revival and co-editor of British Parliamentary Lists 1660–1800. J. Alan Downie was ...
... Cambridge University and is now Reader in Eighteenth-Century History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of The Evangelical Revival and co-editor of British Parliamentary Lists 1660–1800. J. Alan Downie was ...
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... Cambridge University and taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, where he retired as Reader in History. His publications include The Growth of Parliamentary Parties 1689–1742 and British Parliamentary Parties 1742–1832 ...
... Cambridge University and taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, where he retired as Reader in History. His publications include The Growth of Parliamentary Parties 1689–1742 and British Parliamentary Parties 1742–1832 ...
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... Cambridge University. He is currently a Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His many publications include England's Colonial Wars 1550–1688 and Britain's Colonial Wars 1688–1783. Emma Vincent Macleod was ...
... Cambridge University. He is currently a Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His many publications include England's Colonial Wars 1550–1688 and Britain's Colonial Wars 1688–1783. Emma Vincent Macleod was ...
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... (Cambridge, 1984). Clark, J. C. D.: English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Régime (1985; rev. edn, Cambridge, 2000). Dickinson, H. T.: Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (London, 1973) ...
... (Cambridge, 1984). Clark, J. C. D.: English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Régime (1985; rev. edn, Cambridge, 2000). Dickinson, H. T.: Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (London, 1973) ...
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... (Cambridge, 1985). Robbins, Caroline: The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman (Cambridge, MA, 1959). Sack, J. J.: From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c.1760–1832 (Cambridge, 1993). Thomas, P. D. G.: The House ...
... (Cambridge, 1985). Robbins, Caroline: The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman (Cambridge, MA, 1959). Sack, J. J.: From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c.1760–1832 (Cambridge, 1993). Thomas, P. D. G.: The House ...
Contents
Part II The Economy and Society | 125 |
Part III Religion | 223 |
Part IV Culture | 281 |
Part V Union and Disunion in the British Isles | 367 |
Part VI Britain and the Wider World | 429 |
Bibliography | 499 |
Index | 516 |
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