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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... Dublin and the University of Ulster. He is currently Professor of Irish History at the Queen's University, Belfast. His publications include Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660–1760, Priests and People in ...
... Dublin and the University of Ulster. He is currently Professor of Irish History at the Queen's University, Belfast. His publications include Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660–1760, Priests and People in ...
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... Dublin Cork Limerick LOUTH CLARE A B C Bantry Provinces A Ulster B Connaught C Munster D Leinster Population Over 100,000 20,000–100,000 10,000–20,000 5,000–10,000 2,500–5,000 N Population Over. Map 3 Ireland in the eighteenth century ...
... Dublin Cork Limerick LOUTH CLARE A B C Bantry Provinces A Ulster B Connaught C Munster D Leinster Population Over 100,000 20,000–100,000 10,000–20,000 5,000–10,000 2,500–5,000 N Population Over. Map 3 Ireland in the eighteenth century ...
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... Dublin Cork Bury St Edmunds London Amsterdam Austrian Netherlands Le Havre Paris Brest StMaloLorient Bordeaux 250 miles 400 km Austria Prussia Outer Hebrides I. ofMan Flamborough Head Texel Ushant Nor ma n dy R. Thames R. Seine R. Loire ...
... Dublin Cork Bury St Edmunds London Amsterdam Austrian Netherlands Le Havre Paris Brest StMaloLorient Bordeaux 250 miles 400 km Austria Prussia Outer Hebrides I. ofMan Flamborough Head Texel Ushant Nor ma n dy R. Thames R. Seine R. Loire ...
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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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