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Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Hardcover]

Gerald Newman (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0815303963 | ISBN-13: 978-0815303961 | Publication Date: September 1, 1997

Special features
*Surveys of Britain, with substantial coverage of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
*Comprehensive in its range of individual topics
*Written in concise, clear and readable style
*Generously illustrated, with many rare engravings and line drawings
*An extensive system of cross-referencing, indexing, and subject groupings facilitates information searches
*Offers an interesting selected chronology

Also includes 385 maps and illustrations.

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*Surveys of Britain, with substantial coverage of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
*Comprehensive in its range of individual topics
*Written in concise, clear and readable style
*Generously illustrated, with many rare engravings and line drawings
*An extensive system of cross-referencing, indexing, and subject groupings facilitates information searches
*Offers an interesting selected chronology

Also includes 385 maps and illustrations.

Product Details

Hardcover: 904 pages
Publisher: Routledge (September 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0815303963
ISBN-13: 978-0815303961
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,935,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Actors in the Hanoverian age still suffered from that Puritan disapproval of drama which had closed theaters in the 17th century and identified performers with vagrancy and degeneracy. Read the first page

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volunteering movement, factory movement, circulating schools, militia riots, agricultural improvers, loyalist associations, chartered trading companies, rational dissent, fields riot, domestic radicalism, dissenting deputies, poet laureateship, charity school movement, picturesque theory, excise crisis, pauper apprentices, political prints, regency crisis, puddling process, indemnity acts, fighting instructions, popular disturbances, economical reform

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French Revolution, Church of England, House of Commons, North America, American Revolution, Royal Society, Royal Academy, West Indies, East India Company, Sir Robert Walpole, War of American Independence, Hanoverian Britain, Drury Lane, Eighteenth-Century England, Pitt the Younger, Act of Union, Alexander Pope, Covent Garden, Prince of Wales, Henry Fielding, Queen Anne, Glorious Revolution, House of Lords, United Irishmen, David Hume

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The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 by Christine Gerrard on 11 pages
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Dr. David H. Solkin on 10 pages
Religion in England, 1688-1791 (Oxford History of the Christian Church) by Gordon Rupp on 9 pages

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