The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 9781472508935, 1472508939

The long eighteenth century: British political and social history, 1688-1832 [Second edition, reprinted] 9781472511034, 9781472507747, 9781472506948, 9781472508935, 1472507746, 1472511034

Introduction -- 1. Britain in the Later Seventeenth Century -- 2. The Glorious Revolution in Britain, 1688-1714 -- 3. Wh

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The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688–1832 9781472511034, 9781472507747, 9781350000247, 9781472506948

This long–awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complet

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Travel and the British country house: Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century 9781526110343

Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. I

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The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church 9780755692576, 9781845114404

David Hempton's history of the vibrant period between 1650 and 1832 engages with a truly global story: that of Chri

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Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in Eighteenth-Century British Literature 9781512818017

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The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel 9781501739101

Focusing on canonical works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and others, this book explains the relatio

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Blood Waters: War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 39) 9781783276233, 9781800102163, 1783276231

Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a &

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century [4] 1350028916, 9781350028913

Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, ‘deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common for

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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century 9781350287549, 9781350095229, 9781350095731, 1350287547

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and

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The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History 9780300235203

An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras In the e

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