{"product_id":"a-companion-to-eighteenth-century-britain-isbn-9781405149631","title":"A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis authoritative \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaps xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Politics and the Constitution 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The British Constitution 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eH. T. Dickinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The British State 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEckhart Hellmuth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Finance and Taxation 30\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatrick Karl O’Brien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Local Government and Local Society 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Eastwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688–1760) 55\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760–1815) 69\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen M. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Jacobite Movement 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel Szechi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Popular Politics and Radical Ideas 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eH. T. Dickinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Crisis of the French Revolution 112\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmma Vincent Macleod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Economy and Society 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Manufacturing and Commerce 127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Agriculture and Rural Life 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGordon Mingay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Landed Elite 158\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard G. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Middling Orders 172\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas Rogers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Labouring Poor 183\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Rule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Urban Life and Culture 196\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Borsay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Women and the Family 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn D. Ramsbottom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Religion 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Church of England 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeremy Gregory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Religious Minorities in England 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin Haydon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Methodism and the Evangelical Revival 252\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG. M. Ditchfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Religion in Scotland 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStewart J. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Religion in Ireland 271\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSean J. Connolly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Culture 281\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Print Culture 283\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBob Harris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Political Ideas from Locke to Paine 294\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePamela Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Making of Elite Culture 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaura A. Henry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Literature and Drama 329\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Alan Downie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Popular Culture 344\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBob Bushaway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Crime and Punishment 358\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames A. Sharpe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Union and Disunion in the British Isles 367\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Integration: Patriotism and Nationalism 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin Kidd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Scotland and the Union 381\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Murdoch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Wales in the Eighteenth Century 392\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeraint H. Jenkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Ireland: The Making of the ‘Protestant Ascendancy’, 1690–1760 403\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaddy McNally\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Ireland: Radicalism, Rebellion and Union 414\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartyn J. Powell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Britain and the Wider World 429\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Britain’s Emergence as a European Power, 1688–1815 431\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eH. M. Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Britain and the Atlantic World 447\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eW. A. Speck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Britain and India 460\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce P. Lenman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The British Army 473\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStanley D. M. Carpenter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Royal Navy 481\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Harding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Britain and the Slave Trade 489\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Oldfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 499\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 516\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This superb work by leading historian of the period provides a series of introductions to the most important themes for study. The authors bring the most up to date scholarship to bear in their work. Readable, sensible, perceptive and intelligent. If there is one book to use for this century, this is it.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArchives Book Reviews\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The accounts are succinct, very up-to-date and based upon regional as well as national evidence.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNorthern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If this volume is any indication, the series will be successful. Dickinson has collected an array of prominent historians to digest and briefly discuss the trends in their respective fields. This is a collection of essays that most students will find exceptionally useful, and most faculty members will appreciate: Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eH. T. Dickinson\u003c\/b\u003e is Richard Lodge Professor of British History at Edinburgh University. He is a former President of the Historical Association and a former Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Richmond. His numerous books include \u003ci\u003eBritish Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789–1815 (\u003c\/i\u003e1985), \u003ci\u003eCaricatures and the Constitution 1760–1832\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (1995). He was also editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e from 1993 to 2000.  This authoritative \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e to eighteenth-century Britain includes essays by nearly forty experts from the UK, Europe, the United States and Canada. It introduces students, teachers and general readers to the developments that led 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume examines political developments including the founding of the constitution and political system in 1688 and the development of the party political system. It describes economic and social developments in the towns and country which signalled the advent of ‘modern’ society and the cultural advances in the arts, philosophy and the press which greatly interested other European nations. The book also reminds readers that religion remained a powerful force and preoccupation throughout this period and covers the discussions over religious tolerance. There is also a section on the creation of the United Kingdom from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and the serious divisions that still remained. Finally, the book reveals how Britain became a world power, developing and then losing one empire in America but soon acquiring another in India.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e is based on recent research and clearly presents the current state of knowledge and interpretation, demonstrating why this period has recently attracted new scholarly initiatives and historical enquiries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988605845733,"sku":"NP9781405149631","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405149631.jpg?v=1761780944","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-eighteenth-century-britain-isbn-9781405149631","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}