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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (History)
  • ISBN-10:  1405149639
  • ISBN-10:  1405149639
  • ISBN-13:  9781405149631
  • ISBN-13:  9781405149631
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Pages:  584
  • Pages:  584
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2006
  • SKU:  1405149639-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1405149639-11-MPOD
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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.

  • 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

11 Agrl³g

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