A companion to eighteenth-century Britain
- 種類:
- 電子ブック
- 責任表示:
- edited by H.T. Dickinson
- 出版情報:
- 2002
- 著者名:
- シリーズ名:
- Blackwell companions to British history ;
- ISBN:
- 9780470998885 [0470998881]
9781405123167 [1405123168]
9780631218371 [0631218378]
9781405165648 [1405165642]
9781280284489 [128028448X] - 注記:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-515) and index.
COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INRODUCTION -- MAPS -- PART I: POLITICS AND THE CONSTITUTION -- 1 The British Constitution -- 2 The British State -- 3 Finance and Taxation -- 4 Local Government and Local Society -- 5 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688 ... 1760) -- 6 Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760 ... 1815) -- 7 The Jacobite Movement -- 8 Popular Politics and Radical Ideas -- 9 The Crisis of the French Revolution -- PART II: THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY -- 10 Manufacturing and Commerce -- 11 Agriculture and Rural Life -- 12 The Landed Elite -- 13 The Middling Orders -- 14 The Labouring Poor -- 15 Urban Life and Culture -- 16 Women and the Family -- PART III: RELIGION -- 17 The Church of England -- 18 Religious Minorities in England -- 19 Methodism and the Evangelical Revival -- 20 Religion in Scotland -- 21 Religion in Ireland -- PART IV: CULTURE -- 22 Print Culture -- 23 Political Ideas from Locke to Paine -- 24 The Making of Elite Culture -- 25 Literature and Dr
This authoritative Companion 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. The 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 sectio
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