A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain [Paperback]

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• Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts.
  
• Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.

List of Maps x

List of Contributors xi

Introduction xv

Maps xix

Part I Politics and the Constitution 1

1 The British Constitution 3
H. T. Dickinson

2 The British State 19
Eckhart Hellmuth

3 Finance and Taxation 30
Patrick Karl O’Brien

4 Local Government and Local Society 40
David Eastwood

5 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688–1760) 55
Brian Hill

6 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760–1815) 69
Stephen M. Lee

7 The Jacobite Movement 81
Daniel Szechi

8 Popular Politics and Radical Ideas 97
H. T. Dickinson

9 The Crisis of the French Revolution 112
Emma Vincent Macleod

Part II The Economy and Society 125

10 Manufacturing and Commerce 127
John Rule

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