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
... Society David Eastwood 5 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688–1760) Brian Hill 6 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760–1815) Stephen M. Lee 7 The Jacobite Movement Daniel Szechi 8 Popular Politics and Radical Ideas H. T. Dickinson ...
... Society David Eastwood 5 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688–1760) Brian Hill 6 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760–1815) Stephen M. Lee 7 The Jacobite Movement Daniel Szechi 8 Popular Politics and Radical Ideas H. T. Dickinson ...
Page xv
... society. They would have emphasized widespread support for a limited monarchy and have highlighted the prestige of a parliament dominated by the landed elite, but they would also have stressed that government and parliament did little ...
... society. They would have emphasized widespread support for a limited monarchy and have highlighted the prestige of a parliament dominated by the landed elite, but they would also have stressed that government and parliament did little ...
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... society that cannot be understood without making an effort to examine the old and the new, the traditional and the dynamic, the changes and the continuities. This Companion, produced jointly by a range of experts drawn from several ...
... society that cannot be understood without making an effort to examine the old and the new, the traditional and the dynamic, the changes and the continuities. This Companion, produced jointly by a range of experts drawn from several ...
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... society sometimes sought to ape that culture, but in urban areas an enlightened culture arose which was both distinct from and also intersected with the elite culture of the landed classes. The people at large, in both urban and rural ...
... society sometimes sought to ape that culture, but in urban areas an enlightened culture arose which was both distinct from and also intersected with the elite culture of the landed classes. The people at large, in both urban and rural ...
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... society and indeed a defining characteristic of that society and its constitution. Anti-Catholicism was so virulent that when parliament sought to relieve Catholics of some of the penal laws in 1778, this minor concession provoked the ...
... society and indeed a defining characteristic of that society and its constitution. Anti-Catholicism was so virulent that when parliament sought to relieve Catholics of some of the penal laws in 1778, this minor concession provoked the ...
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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