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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... George Washington University and the University of Edinburgh and is now Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the latter university. His publications include 'The People Above': Politics and Administration in MidEighteenth-Century ...
... George Washington University and the University of Edinburgh and is now Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the latter university. His publications include 'The People Above': Politics and Administration in MidEighteenth-Century ...
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... George Lockhart ofCarnwath, 1689–1727: A Study in Jacobitism. Richard G. Wilson gained his doctorate at Leeds University and is now Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of East Anglia. His publications include ...
... George Lockhart ofCarnwath, 1689–1727: A Study in Jacobitism. Richard G. Wilson gained his doctorate at Leeds University and is now Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of East Anglia. His publications include ...
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... George III by John Reeves, one of the government's most fervent supporters, in his ultra-conservative tract, Thoughts on English Government (1795). For most of the eighteenth century many Whig and radical opponents of royal power were ...
... George III by John Reeves, one of the government's most fervent supporters, in his ultra-conservative tract, Thoughts on English Government (1795). For most of the eighteenth century many Whig and radical opponents of royal power were ...
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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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