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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century BritainISBN: 978-0-470-99887-8
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584 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Maps..
Part I: Politics and the Constitution.
1. British Constitution (H.T. Dickinson).
2. The British State (Eckhart Hellmuth).
3. Finance and Taxation (Patrick Karl O'Brien).
4. Local Government and Local Society (David Eastwood).
5. Parliament, Parties and Elections (1688-1760) (Brian Hill).
6. Parliament, Parties and Elections (1760-1815) (Stephen M. Lee).
7. The Jacobite Movement (Daniel Szechi).
8. Popular Politics and Radical Ideas (H.T. Dickinson).
9. The Crisis of the French Revolution (Emma Vincent Macleod).
Part II: The Economy and Society.
10. Manufacturing and Commerce (John Rule).
11. Agriculture and Rural Life (Gordon Mingay).
12. The Landed Elite (Richard G. Wilson).
13. The Middling Orders (Nicholas Rogers).
14. The Labouring Poor (John Rule).
15. Urban Life and Culture (Peter Borsay).
16. Women and the Family (John D. Ramsbottom).
Part III: Religion.
17. The Church of England (Jeremy Gregory).
18. Religious Minorities in England (Colin Haydon).
19. Methodism and the Evangelical Revival (G. M. Ditchfield).
20. Religion in Scotland (Stewart J. Brown).
21. Religion in Ireland (Sean J. Connolly).
Part IV: Culture.
22. Print Culture (Bob Harris).
23. Political Ideas from Locke to Paine (Pamela Edwards).
24. The Making of Elite Culture (Maura A. Henry).
25. Literature and Drama (J. Alan Downie).
26. Popular Culture (Bob Bushaway).
27. Crime and Punishment (James A. Sharpe).
Part V: Union and Disunion in the British Isles.
28. Integration: Patriotism and Nationalism (Colin Kidd).
29. Scotland and the Union (Alexander Murdoch).
30. Wales in the Eighteenth Century (Geriant H. Jenkins).
31. Ireland: The Making of the 'Protestant Ascendancy', 1690-1760 (Paddy McNally).
32. Ireland: Radicalism, Rebellion and Union (Martyn J. Powell).
Part VI: Britain and the Wider World.
33. Britain’s Emergence as a European Power, 1688-1815 (H.M. Scott).
34. Britain and the Atlantic World (W.A. Speck).
35. Britain and India (Bruce P. Lenman).
36. The British Army (Stanley D.M. Carpenter).
37. The Royal Navy (Richard Harding).
38. Britain and he Slave Trade (John Oldfield).
Bibliography.
Index.
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