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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... eighteenth century British ministers drifted into a political crisis with British subjects on the mainland of North America and failed to avoid a disastrous war which resulted in Britain losing these valuable American colonies. This ...
... eighteenth century British ministers drifted into a political crisis with British subjects on the mainland of North America and failed to avoid a disastrous war which resulted in Britain losing these valuable American colonies. This ...
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... 18 19 21 17 22 22 16 23 25 26 24 27 28 M 32 31 330 33 338 34 29 29 38 37 8888 39 Group of burghs with name of group. Edinburgh ... eighteenth century ( adapted from Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi , The Age of Oligarchy , London , 1993 ) ...
... 18 19 21 17 22 22 16 23 25 26 24 27 28 M 32 31 330 33 338 34 29 29 38 37 8888 39 Group of burghs with name of group. Edinburgh ... eighteenth century ( adapted from Geoffrey Holmes and Daniel Szechi , The Age of Oligarchy , London , 1993 ) ...
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... eighteenth century or to state with precision what the constitution was at any particular date in that century. There was very considerable debate in the eighteenth century about both pre- cisely what the constitution was and what it ...
... eighteenth century or to state with precision what the constitution was at any particular date in that century. There was very considerable debate in the eighteenth century about both pre- cisely what the constitution was and what it ...
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... eighteenth century three different notions of the origins of the consti- tution were in contention - divine right , the original contract and the ancient con- stitution – but only the last of these secured overwhelming support . The ...
... eighteenth century three different notions of the origins of the consti- tution were in contention - divine right , the original contract and the ancient con- stitution – but only the last of these secured overwhelming support . The ...
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... eighteenth century . The ruling elite had no desire to see the people appeal to the contract theory or to the right of resistance in order to challenge their own right to govern . They played down the importance of Revolu- tion ...
... eighteenth century . The ruling elite had no desire to see the people appeal to the contract theory or to the right of resistance in order to challenge their own right to govern . They played down the importance of Revolu- tion ...
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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