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.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page xvi
... liberties than before, and while Britain became the most efficient fiscal-military state in Europe and developed a particularly effective finance and taxation system, the political system and the ruling elite were seriously challenged ...
... liberties than before, and while Britain became the most efficient fiscal-military state in Europe and developed a particularly effective finance and taxation system, the political system and the ruling elite were seriously challenged ...
Page xviii
... liberties', and yet Britain also came to dominate the Atlantic slave trade and to govern large numbers of non-European subjects across the world. These achievements brought resentment and even resistance, as well as political and ...
... liberties', and yet Britain also came to dominate the Atlantic slave trade and to govern large numbers of non-European subjects across the world. These achievements brought resentment and even resistance, as well as political and ...
Page 4
... liberties of the subject. We then need to look at how the political system operated within these constitutional restraints: looking at the role of the monarch and his ministers, at the management of parliament and at church–state ...
... liberties of the subject. We then need to look at how the political system operated within these constitutional restraints: looking at the role of the monarch and his ministers, at the management of parliament and at church–state ...
Page 5
... liberties of Englishmen were of ancient vintage. It was firmly believed that this ancient constitution could be traced back to the AngloSaxon era before the Norman Conquest of 1066. This concept of the ancient constitution was used by ...
... liberties of Englishmen were of ancient vintage. It was firmly believed that this ancient constitution could be traced back to the AngloSaxon era before the Norman Conquest of 1066. This concept of the ancient constitution was used by ...
Page 6
... liberties of the subject, they appealed instead to reason and morality to justify the rights of the subject. Thomas Paine, in particular, argued that it was not sufficient to look back to the Glorious Revolution or to any earlier ...
... liberties of the subject, they appealed instead to reason and morality to justify the rights of the subject. Thomas Paine, in particular, argued that it was not sufficient to look back to the Glorious Revolution or to any earlier ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anglican army Atlantic slave trade became Britain British Cambridge Catholic cent Church of England civil clergy colonies Commons constitution court crown decades Dissenters dominated Dublin duke Dutch Republic early economic Edinburgh eighteenth century eighteenth-century Britain elections English established estates Europe France French Revolution gentry George George III Glorious Revolution Gulliver’s Travels Hanoverian historians History House House of Lords important increase increasingly industrial influence interests Ireland Irish Jacobite John labour landed elite landowners late eighteenth liberties London Lords major manufacturing ment merchants middling military ministers ministry monarch ofthe Oxford parish parliament parliamentary party patriot period Pitt political poor population Presbyterian Protestant radical reform religious role royal Royal Navy rural Scotland Scots Scottish slave trade social society Stuart successful taxes tion Tory towns union United Irishmen urban vote Wales Walpole Walpole’s Welsh Whig William women