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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... population remained Catholic. The Catholic question and sectarian divisions bedevilled internal relations on that island and undoubtedly soured relations with Great Britain. There is now widespread interest in cultural history. There ...
... population remained Catholic. The Catholic question and sectarian divisions bedevilled internal relations on that island and undoubtedly soured relations with Great Britain. There is now widespread interest in cultural history. There ...
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... Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 N Population Over. Map 3 Ireland in the eighteenth century (adapted from Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi, The Age of Oligarchy, London, 1993). Map 4 Towns ...
... Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 N Population Over. Map 3 Ireland in the eighteenth century (adapted from Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi, The Age of Oligarchy, London, 1993). Map 4 Towns ...
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H. T. Dickinson. Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 N Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,000 20,000 5,00010,000 2,500 5,000 N. Map 4 Towns with 2,500+ inhabitants in 1700 (adapted from ...
H. T. Dickinson. Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 N Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,000 20,000 5,00010,000 2,500 5,000 N. Map 4 Towns with 2,500+ inhabitants in 1700 (adapted from ...
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H. T. Dickinson. Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,000 20,000 5,00010,000 2,500 5,000 N Population Over100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 0 5miles 0 8km. Map 5 Towns with 2,500+ inhabitants in 1750 ...
H. T. Dickinson. Population Over 100,000 20,000100,000 10,000 20,000 5,00010,000 2,500 5,000 N Population Over100,000 20,000100,000 10,00020,000 5,00010,000 2,5005,000 0 5miles 0 8km. Map 5 Towns with 2,500+ inhabitants in 1750 ...
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... population the Church of England's ceremonies and rituals marked their major rites of passage through life. It offered a focus to their daily lives and a consolation in death. FURTHER READING Browning, Reed: Political and Constitutional ...
... population the Church of England's ceremonies and rituals marked their major rites of passage through life. It offered a focus to their daily lives and a consolation in death. FURTHER READING Browning, Reed: Political and Constitutional ...
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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