This collection takes a thematic approach to eighteenth-century history, covering such topics as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and changes, social and demographic structure and growth, and culture. It presents a lively picture of an era of intense change and growth.
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An excellent, up-to-date and highly efficient book. Dr D. L. Smith, Fellow/Director of Studies, Selwyn College, Cambridge
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Paul Langford is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and has been a Professor of Modern History at Oxford since 1996. Amongst his numerous publications are A Polite and Commercial People: English 1727-83 and Englishness Identified: Manner and Character, 1650-1850.
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Time may be seamless but historians are of necessity snippers and stitchers as they tailor the past. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improving culture, sacramental test, parliamentary management, heritable jurisdictions, prudential restraint, economical reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Isles, Seven Years War, Glorious Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, American War, Act of Union, Adam Smith, City of London, Scottish Enlightenment, French Revolution, House of Commons, Roman Catholicism, Scottish Highlands, William Pitt, Church of Ireland, East Anglia, East India Company, Irish Protestants, Joseph Priestley, Queen Anne, Robert Walpole, Roman Catholics, Toleration Act, Younger Pitt, Great War New!
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Time may be seamless but historians are of necessity snippers and stitchers as they tailor the past. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
improving culture, sacramental test, parliamentary management, heritable jurisdictions, prudential restraint, economical reform Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Isles, Seven Years War, Glorious Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, American War, Act of Union, Adam Smith, City of London, Scottish Enlightenment, French Revolution, House of Commons, Roman Catholicism, Scottish Highlands, William Pitt, Church of Ireland, East Anglia, East India Company, Irish Protestants, Joseph Priestley, Queen Anne, Robert Walpole, Roman Catholics, Toleration Act, Younger Pitt, Great War New!
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- The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (Volume 1) by D. M. Palliser in Table of Contents, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon on page 228, and Back Matter
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon on page 228, and Back Matter
- Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by E. P. Thompson on page 131, and Back Matter
- The Eighteenth Century (The Context of English Literature) by Pat Rogers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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