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 vii
... Politics and Radical Ideas H. T. Dickinson 9 The Crisis of the French Revolution Emma Vincent Macleod xi xv xix 19 30 40 55 69 81 97 112 Part II The Economy and Society 10 Manufacturing and Commerce A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ...
... Politics and Radical Ideas H. T. Dickinson 9 The Crisis of the French Revolution Emma Vincent Macleod xi xv xix 19 30 40 55 69 81 97 112 Part II The Economy and Society 10 Manufacturing and Commerce A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ...
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... Political Thought and Enlightenment and Dissent, and is revising her book on the political thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Jeremy Gregory was educated at Oxford University. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of ...
... Political Thought and Enlightenment and Dissent, and is revising her book on the political thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Jeremy Gregory was educated at Oxford University. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of ...
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... political views among the propertied elite. On the other hand, these essays also show: that the sovereignty of crown-in-parliament became increasingly assured; that, for the first time in its history, parliament met every year after ...
... political views among the propertied elite. On the other hand, these essays also show: that the sovereignty of crown-in-parliament became increasingly assured; that, for the first time in its history, parliament met every year after ...
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... political centre. It was not only middle-class males, however, who were affected by economic and social changes; both the poor and women of all classes began to escape from those economic fetters and social chains that had previously ...
... political centre. It was not only middle-class males, however, who were affected by economic and social changes; both the poor and women of all classes began to escape from those economic fetters and social chains that had previously ...
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... political and economic benefits. Without clear government planning or a decided imperial strategy, Britain acquired a large empire across the Atlantic, stretching from Hudson Bay to Trinidad. In the later eighteenth century British ...
... political and economic benefits. Without clear government planning or a decided imperial strategy, Britain acquired a large empire across the Atlantic, stretching from Hudson Bay to Trinidad. In the later eighteenth century British ...
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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