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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... became increasingly assured; that, for the first time in its history, parliament met every year after 1689; how political parties rose, declined and began to rise again; and how both central and local government were not entirely ...
... became increasingly assured; that, for the first time in its history, parliament met every year after 1689; how political parties rose, declined and began to rise again; and how both central and local government were not entirely ...
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... became a rising force in the late eighteenth century. Scotland retained her own distinctive established church after the Union of 1707, but it too faced competition from other sects and churches. In Ireland Protestant Dissent was a ...
... became a rising force in the late eighteenth century. Scotland retained her own distinctive established church after the Union of 1707, but it too faced competition from other sects and churches. In Ireland Protestant Dissent was a ...
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... became one of the most heavily taxed nations in Europe. The British state extracted more in taxes from its subjects than did absolutist France, and from the late seventeenth century the curve of tax revenue was a steeply rising one ...
... became one of the most heavily taxed nations in Europe. The British state extracted more in taxes from its subjects than did absolutist France, and from the late seventeenth century the curve of tax revenue was a steeply rising one ...
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... became active when the established local authorities were unable, or unwilling, to undertake certain tasks. Thus, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) took up the cause ...
... became active when the established local authorities were unable, or unwilling, to undertake certain tasks. Thus, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) took up the cause ...
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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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