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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Page xv
... increasingly urbanized, secularized and tolerant. They would have celebrated the military, naval and imperial successes which Britain gained in her long rivalry with France, with but a passing nod to the failure in the War of American ...
... increasingly urbanized, secularized and tolerant. They would have celebrated the military, naval and imperial successes which Britain gained in her long rivalry with France, with but a passing nod to the failure in the War of American ...
Page xvi
... 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 dominated by ...
... 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 dominated by ...
Page xvii
... increasingly divided at home between its elite, bourgeois and popular cultures. The landed elite developed an impressively cohesive culture that enabled it to maintain its dominant political and social position. The middling orders in ...
... increasingly divided at home between its elite, bourgeois and popular cultures. The landed elite developed an impressively cohesive culture that enabled it to maintain its dominant political and social position. The middling orders in ...
Page xviii
... increasingly brought under the political sway of England? The contributors to this section of the Companion all seek to show what was distinctive about Scotland, Wales and Ireland, how far different communities flourished across the ...
... increasingly brought under the political sway of England? The contributors to this section of the Companion all seek to show what was distinctive about Scotland, Wales and Ireland, how far different communities flourished across the ...
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... increasingly difficult to support divine right monarchy and to preach its ideological support for the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance. The Toleration Act of 1689 formally allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely ...
... increasingly difficult to support divine right monarchy and to preach its ideological support for the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance. The Toleration Act of 1689 formally allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship freely ...
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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