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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H. T. Dickinson. A Companion to EighteenthCentury Britain H. T. Dickinson A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Front Cover.
H. T. Dickinson. A Companion to EighteenthCentury Britain H. T. Dickinson A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Front Cover.
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... UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2002 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to eighteenth-century Britain ...
... UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2002 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to eighteenth-century Britain ...
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... Britain Edited by Barry Coward A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Edited by H. T. Dickinson A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain Edited by Chris Wrigley In preparation A Companion to Roman Britain Edited by Malcolm Todd ...
... Britain Edited by Barry Coward A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Edited by H. T. Dickinson A Companion to Early Twentieth-Century Britain Edited by Chris Wrigley In preparation A Companion to Roman Britain Edited by Malcolm Todd ...
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H. T. Dickinson. Contributors. Introduction H. T. Dickinson Fifty years ago historians studying eighteenth-century. Peter Borsay was educated at Lancaster University and is at present ... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: List of Contributors.
H. T. Dickinson. Contributors. Introduction H. T. Dickinson Fifty years ago historians studying eighteenth-century. Peter Borsay was educated at Lancaster University and is at present ... EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN: List of Contributors.
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... Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Colin Haydon was educated at Oxford University and is now Reader in History at King Alfred's College, Winchester. His publications include Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England, c.1714–80 ...
... Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Colin Haydon was educated at Oxford University and is now Reader in History at King Alfred's College, Winchester. His publications include Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England, c.1714–80 ...
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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