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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... Women's History Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt A Companion to Post-1945 America Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig A Companion to the Vietnam War Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco In preparation A Companion to ...
... Women's History Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt A Companion to Post-1945 America Edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig A Companion to the Vietnam War Edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco In preparation A Companion to ...
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... Women and the Family John D. Ramsbottom Part III Religion 17 The Church of England Jeremy Gregory 18 Religious Minorities in England Colin Haydon 19 Methodism and the Evangelical Revival G. M. Ditchfield 20 Religion in Scotland StewartJ ...
... Women and the Family John D. Ramsbottom Part III Religion 17 The Church of England Jeremy Gregory 18 Religious Minorities in England Colin Haydon 19 Methodism and the Evangelical Revival G. M. Ditchfield 20 Religion in Scotland StewartJ ...
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... Women's Studies and Assistant Director of Women's Studies. Brian Hill gained his doctorate at Cambridge University and taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, where he retired as Reader in History. His publications ...
... Women's Studies and Assistant Director of Women's Studies. Brian Hill gained his doctorate at Cambridge University and taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, where he retired as Reader in History. His publications ...
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... women of all classes began to escape from those economic fetters and social chains that had previously bound them and still bound a higher proportion of the subjects of other European states. Contributors to this Companion clearly ...
... women of all classes began to escape from those economic fetters and social chains that had previously bound them and still bound a higher proportion of the subjects of other European states. Contributors to this Companion clearly ...
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... women). Although there was constant and sometimes intense ideological debate about the nature of the British constitution in the eighteenth century, the majority of the political elite during most of the period agreed on the major ...
... women). Although there was constant and sometimes intense ideological debate about the nature of the British constitution in the eighteenth century, the majority of the political elite during most of the period agreed on the major ...
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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