A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Description

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.

About the Author

H. T. Dickinson 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 British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789–1815 (1985), Caricatures and the Constitution 1760–1832 (1986) and The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1995). He was also editor of the journal History from 1993 to 2000.

Features

Shows how Britain became 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.

Series

Blackwell Companions to British History

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