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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... Hanoverian Ireland. Gordon Mingay was educated at Nottingham University. He is now retired, but his last appointment was as Professor of Agrarian History at the University of Kent. Among his many publications are two large-scale edited ...
... Hanoverian Ireland. Gordon Mingay was educated at Nottingham University. He is now retired, but his last appointment was as Professor of Agrarian History at the University of Kent. Among his many publications are two large-scale edited ...
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... Hanoverian succession in 1714, and the defeat of the Jacobite rebellions, both ensured that this view of the constitution would last throughout the eighteenth century. The ruling elite had no desire to see the people appeal to the ...
... Hanoverian succession in 1714, and the defeat of the Jacobite rebellions, both ensured that this view of the constitution would last throughout the eighteenth century. The ruling elite had no desire to see the people appeal to the ...
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... Hanoverians or the Stuarts should sit on the throne, but at no stage was there marked hostility to monarchy as such and there was generally considerable support for those prerogatives of the crown that had survived the Glorious ...
... Hanoverians or the Stuarts should sit on the throne, but at no stage was there marked hostility to monarchy as such and there was generally considerable support for those prerogatives of the crown that had survived the Glorious ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Blackwell Companions to British History |
| Editor | H. T. Dickinson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0470998873, 9780470998878 |
| Length | 592 pages |
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