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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... Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia Kurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany The right of H. T. Dickinson to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in ...
... Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia Kurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany The right of H. T. Dickinson to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in ...
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... Oxford Companion to Irish History. H. T. Dickinson has degrees from Durham, Newcastle and Edinburgh universities and has been Richard Lodge Professor of British History at Edinburgh since 1980. His publications include Liberty and ...
... Oxford Companion to Irish History. H. T. Dickinson has degrees from Durham, Newcastle and Edinburgh universities and has been Richard Lodge Professor of British History at Edinburgh since 1980. His publications include Liberty and ...
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... Oxford University and taught there before becoming Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is currently Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. His publications include Rural England: Tradition ...
... Oxford University and taught there before becoming Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is currently Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. His publications include Rural England: Tradition ...
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... Oxford before becoming Director of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. He is currently Centennial Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His many publications include Revolution in ...
... Oxford before becoming Director of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. He is currently Centennial Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His many publications include Revolution in ...
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... Oxford University. He was a Professor of History at Hull and Leeds universities. He is now an emeritus Professor of History of the University of Leeds and at present a visiting professor at the University of Northumbria (Carlisle campus) ...
... Oxford University. He was a Professor of History at Hull and Leeds universities. He is now an emeritus Professor of History of the University of Leeds and at present a visiting professor at the University of Northumbria (Carlisle campus) ...
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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