St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 416 p. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was—again—at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2017. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198706-78-6. The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2017. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN 978-0-198706-78-6. The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines...
University of Chester Press, 2019. — 412 p. The extraordinary story of the two early collieries at Neston, in west Cheshire, has been largely overlooked by historians. Yet, for a time the main coal mine, Ness Colliery, was more successful than most of its contemporaries in nearby south-west Lancashire and North Wales. It was the first large industrial site in west Cheshire and...
London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite of destructive wars and a rapid growth of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 256 p. 1714 was a revolutionary year for Dissenters across the British Empire. The Hanoverian Succession upended a political and religious order antagonistic to Protestant non-conformity and replaced it with a regime that was, ostensibly, sympathetic to the Whig interest. The death of Queen Anne and the dawn of Hanoverian Rule presented...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 347 p. A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire. The moralism that characterized the decades either side of 1800 - the so-called 'Age of William Wilberforce' - has long been regarded as having...
Fonthill Media, 2015. — 128 p. Great Britain has for many centuries been one of the world's great sea-faring nations. The Royal Navy has defended her territory and the merchant fleet has been instrumental in creating the nation's wealth. The courage, industry and exploits of many of her sailors and the names of the ships in which they served have become legends. However, the...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 368 p. All your questions involving the scandalous history of Georgian Britain will be answered in Lady Anne Hamilton’s Secret History of the Court of England, originally published in 1832 and reprinted at long last! The Georgian era, we are told, was a “polite and commercial” era. The supposedly refined aristocracy governed the nation while the...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. — 364 p. This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literature—particularly the novel—and visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries,...
Routledge, 2004. — 168 p. Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 280 p. In 1688, a vast fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Spanish Armada, put to sea from Holland. On board was William of Orange with 40,000 soldiers – their objective, England. The Protestant William had been encouraged by a group of Church of England bishops to risk everything and oust the Catholic King James. He landed at Tor Bay in Devon and...
Manchester University Press, 1991. — 216 p. This collection of essays is based on papers given at a colloquium on "Culture and Politics: Ideology and Practice in Britain" held at Newcastle Polytechnic in September 1989. They are all, in their different ways, concerned with the interlocking of the worlds of culture, politics and society and, taken together, present some of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1985. — 260 p. This study provides an analysis of the major questions surrounding the debate, formulation and execution of foreign policy in the age of Walpole. It is a subject which has tended to be ignored by historians, yet it was central to the political activity of the period. as well as to historians of Parliament, Jacobitism, trade and the press.
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 325 p. Eighteenth-century England was a place of enlightenment and revolution: new ideas abounded in science, politics, transportation, commerce, religion, and the arts. But even as England propelled itself into the future, it was preoccupied with notions of its past. Jeremy Black considers the interaction of history with knowledge and culture...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2001. — 320 p. Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.
Indiana University Press, 2021. — 356 p. Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, Black provides a historical context for a deeper...
Indiana University Press, 2021. — 356 p. Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, Black provides a historical context for a deeper...
Casemate Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain’s expansion has been superbly covered by a number of excellent studies, but there has not been a single volume that does the same for the army and, in particular, looks at how and why it...
Casemate Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain’s expansion has been superbly covered by a number of excellent studies, but there has not been a single volume that does the same for the army and, in particular, looks at how and why it...
Penguin Books, 2017. — 128 p. George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest. Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation...
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 384 p. Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions--English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign...
Routledge, 1990. — 392 p. The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the history of towns. This...
Unwin Hyman, 1989. — 271 p. This book is about the growing powers of central government in a period more famous for its praise of liberty. It is a study of the most important changes in British government between the reforms of the Tudors and the major administrative reconstruction of the first half of the nineteenth century. But, unlike those administrative innovations, the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0199287422. List of Illustrations List of Maps, Table, and Figure List of Abbreviations Note The Naval Surgeon During the French Wars Origins and Early Career The Mediterranean and Trafalgar Beatty and Nelson’s Apotheosis Later Career Afterword Select Bibliography
The History Press, 2011. — 320 p. John Callow's book reassesses king James II's strategy for dealing with his downfall and exile after his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, presenting a portrait of a man who planned for himself great political rewards and popular acclaim.
Boydell Press, 2019. — 318 p. The study of sociability in the long eighteenth century has long been dominated by the example of France. In this innovative collection, we see how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nineteenth century through a complex process of appropriation, emulation and...
University of Virginia Press, 2020. — 280 p. A country bitterly divided between two political parties. Populist mobs rising in support of a reactionary rabble-rouser. Foreign interference in the political process. Strained relations between Britain and Europe. These are not recent headlines they are from the year 1710, when Queen Anne ruled Britain. In her engagingly written...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 275 p. How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice. The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This new vogue for ridicule unleashed moral...
Routledge, 2000. — 224 p. This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of...
The History Press, 2008. — 256 p. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, over 200,000 prisoners of war of many nationalities were brought to Britain to be held in the infamous prison hulks, land prisons and parole depots. Many prisoners languished in captivity for over eleven years. This book tells the story of these men and women. Hell Upon Water examines how...
Rosetta Books, 2014. — 388 p. Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesman in the history of England. His descendant, Sir Winston...
Rosetta Books, 2014. — 356 p. Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesman in the history of England. His descendant, Sir Winston...
Rosetta Books, 2014. — 388 p. Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesman in the history of England. His descendant, Sir Winston...
Rosetta Books, 2014. — 388 p. Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesman in the history of England. His descendant, Sir Winston...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 500 p. This classic work of recent historiography broke the hold of the "old guard" on this key period of English history. It has now been extensively rewritten, and in its updated form reinforces its arguments with new evidence and addresses some of the historical preoccupations of the past fifteen years. A fascinating work, it remains...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 500 p. This classic work of recent historiography broke the hold of the "old guard" on this key period of English history. It has now been extensively rewritten, and in its updated form reinforces its arguments with new evidence and addresses some of the historical preoccupations of the past fifteen years. A fascinating work, it remains...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 170 p. Definitive, concise, and very interesting. From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). This book provides the first full account of William III's propaganda during his reign in England, 1689-1702. It thus explores the self-presentation of the English monarchy at a particularly difficult moment. In the 1690s the king had both to justify his irregular succession to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 292 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). This book provides the first full account of William III's propaganda during his reign in England, 1689-1702. It thus explores the self-presentation of the English monarchy at a particularly difficult moment. In the 1690s the king had both to justify his irregular succession to the...
Conway, 2013. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-844862-07-0. Nelson, Navy & Nation explores the Royal Navy's relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars. The book encompasses the realities of naval life in this period; the navy's connection to society; culture and national identity; and the story of Nelson's life and career. It brings together a...
Routledge, 2017. — 257 p. The English Jacobins is a full-scale study of the English reformers of the late eighteenth century, called "Jacobins" by their enemies who feared a repetition of the radical excesses of revolutionary France. Cone describes the rise of reform organizations during the controversy in Parliament over John Wilkes, who attempted to blow up Parliament in the...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 407 p. This book examines a hitherto neglected aspect of the War of American Independence, providing the first wide-ranging exploration of the impact of this conflict upon the economy, society, and culture of the British Isles. Stephen Conway sheds new light on recent debates about the war-waging efficiency of the British state and on the role...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 357 p. This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-1763 on Britain and Ireland. The period was dominated by armed struggle between Britain and the Bourbon powers, particularly France. These wars, especially the Seven Years War of 1756-1763, saw a considerable mobilization of manpower, materiel and money. They had important affects on the...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 336 p. The Friends of Peace is a study of the war-opposition in England during what has usually been presented as the great patriotic struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Protest against the wars was led by liberal writers, professionals and businessmen. Dr Cookson argues that the importance of these anti-war liberals has...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 488 p. A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today. The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. — 344 p. Politics has always been at the heart of the English country house, in its design and construction, as well as in the activities and experiences of those who lived in and visited these places. As Britain moved from an agrarian to an imperial economy over the course of the eighteenth century, the home mirrored the social change...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 234 p. How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of the great taxing power of the modern...
McFarland, 2019. — 532 p. Queen Anne (1665-1714) was not charismatic, brilliant or beautiful, but under her rule, England rose from the chaos of regicide, civil war and revolution to the cusp of global supremacy. She fought a successful overseas war against Europe's superpower and her moderation kept the crown independent of party warfare at home. This biography reveals Anne...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 324 p. Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot by preventive arrests and holding those he suspected illegally without bail or trial. When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory party, to reuinted the Whig party and to...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 232 p. For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four kings had presided over a changing nation. Kings Georgian Britain offers a fresh...
Pen and Sword History, 2016. — 208 p. As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land. Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of the doomed Bourbons, the absolutist powerhouse of...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 239 p. Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Hailing from Germany, these occasionally mad, bad and infamous sovereigns presided over a land in turmoil. Yet what of the remarkable women who were crowned alongside them? From the forgotten princess locked in a...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 208 p. When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privilege, she hated the groom she called “pig snout” and wept at news of her engagement. In the austere court of Hanover, the vibrant young princess found herself ignored and unwanted. Bewildered by...
Pen and Sword Books, 2020. — 255 p. An in-depth look into the lives of the six daughters of King George III of England. In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Though...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 200 p. For nearly 60 years, King George III reigned over a tumultuous kingdom. His health and realm were in turmoil, while family life held challenges of its own. From the corpulent Prinny and the Grand Old Duke of York, to a king who battled the Lords and the disciplinarian Duke of Kent, this is the story of the elder sons of George III. Born...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 216 p. When George I arrived in England he found a kingdom in turmoil. Mistrustful of the new monarch from Hanover, his subjects met his coronation with riots. At George's side was his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenberg, whilst his ex-wife languished in prison. Known as the Maypole thanks to her eye-catching figure, Melusine was the king's...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 224 p. Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton ’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her youthful groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The placid and unassuming young...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 224 p. Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton ’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her youthful groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The placid and unassuming young...
Routledge, 2022. — 665 p. This critical edition of Admiral Nelson’s letters to Lady Hamilton is to bring together the important letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton that have only been published in parts over the last 200 years. Only by bringing the letters of Nelson to Lady Hamilton together is it possible to assess their relationship and to present certain insights into...
The History Press, 2011. — 228 p. From a farming background in Cumbria, John Wilkinson's remarkable abilities and ambitions ensured his rise to pre-eminence among the gifted pioneers of the industrial revolution. His colleagues and friends were similarly talented characters, including James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Richard Crawshay and Thomas Telford. Wilkinson achieved great...
New York: The Macmillan Press, 1987. — 212 p. — ISBN10: 0312013639; ISBN13: 978-0312013639 This study of the early contributors to the Anti-Jacobin Review grew indirectly out of research for a doctoral dissertation at Duke University, North Carolina, concerning the role played by several late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British periodicals in the conservative...
Brill, 2013. — 205 p. Starting with the analysis of the diary kept by Constantijn Huygens Jr in the second half of the 17th century, this book sketches a panoramic view of life among Dutch regents and at the court of William and Mary, including an eyewitness account of the Glorious Revolution, and highlighting themes such as scientific progress, book and art collecting.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 250 p. This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters between Britons and continental Europeans, in a variety of situations and places: moments that led to a meaningful exchange of opinions, practices, or concepts such as friendship or politeness. It argues that, taken together, travel...
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 224 р. England trembled in 1792. In May, George III issued a proclamation warning his subjects of "diverse wicked and seditious writings" then being circulated which might "excite tumult and disorder." The response to this proclamation—an unprecedented expression of loyalty to crown and constitution—marked the beginnings of a movement that...
Peter Owen Publishers, 2013. — 192 p. Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714), grand-daughter of James I and mother of George I, is best remembered as the link between the Houses of Stuart and Hanover. But, above all, she was a gifted and prolific chronicler and her detailed memoirs and letters give us an insider s view of life for the top echelons of society in the 16th...
Liverpool University Press, 2015. — 320 p. This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons,...
I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 208 p. The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which many features of the modern world made their first significant appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military mobilisation, and anti-colonial revolt all made their most telling debuts in the revolutionary...
London: Routledge, 1999. — 108 p. — ISBN10: 0415132851; ISBN13: 978-0415132855 — (Lancaster Pamphlets) William Pitt the Younger re-examines Pitt's career in the light of recent research and emphasizes that it should not be stereotyped as having a "reformist" phase in the years to 1793 and a `reactionary' phase thereafter. His treatment includes explanation of: Pitt's rapid rise...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 576 p. A brilliant new biographer presents an unforgettable portrait of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), the glamorous and controversial founder of the Spencer-Churchill dynasty that produced both Winston Churchill and Lady Diana Spencer. Tied to Queen Anne by an intimate friendship, Sarah hoped to wield power equal to that...
Routledge, 2017. — 362 p. This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices, whilst investigating these methods in the three dominant...
Clarendon Press, 1911. — 280 p. During the French Revolution, the anti-monarchical ideals of France were regarded with alarm throughout Europe. While France was plunged into chaos, Britain took advantage of its temporary weakness to stir up the civil war occurring in France and build up its naval forces. The Revolution was initially popular with many Britons, both because it...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 208 p. Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 238 p. The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out. A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the way in which eighteenth-century...
Ashgate, 2015. — 270 p. The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the world with a growing colonial Empire, a muscular economy and an effervescent artistic,...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. — 207 p. Well-known Jacobite historian John S. Gibson writes about the life of the famous Clan Chief. I. The Log of Le du Teillay II. The Legend of Montrose III. The Path of Glenfinnan IV. The Noble Attempt V. The Summers Hunting VI. The Reproach of Their Blood Mémoire dun Ecossais Abbreviations Sources Dramatic Personae Index
Routledge, 2017. — 352 p. Through a series of studies focusing on individuals, this volume highlights the continued importance of religion and religious identity on British life throughout the long eighteenth century. From the Puritan divine and scholar Roger Morrice, active at the beginning of the period, to Dean Shipley who died in the reign of George IV, the individuals...
Robinson, 2011. — 368 p. In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world – the centre of burgeoning Empire, at the forefront of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. However, radical change also brought with it...
Royal Historical Society, 2006. — 230 p. Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England - the period between the Restoration and the South Sea Bubble - was dramatically transformed by the massive cost of fighting wars, and, significantly, a huge increase in the re-export trade. This book seeks to ask how commerce was legitimated, promoted, fashioned, defined and...
Routledge, 2021. — 236 p. In the years 1803-5 Napoleon Bonaparte built 4 new harbours on his channel coast and assembled enough landing craft to put an army of over 165,000 men ashore on English beaches. Was this threat to Britain really serious and should we dismiss it as pure Bluff? Why was it never revived after Bonaparte's continental wars against the Russians, Austrians...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 336 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008 - 224 p. Thomas Aikenhead, a student at the University of Edinburgh, was hanged for blasphemy in 1697. His story brings together many of the critical themes in Scottish and British history in an era of transition from the revolutionary upheavals of the highly confessionalized seventeenth century to the more open civil society which came to...
Routledge, 2007. — 507 p. Enormously rich and wide-ranging, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century brings together, in one handy reference, a wide range of essential information on the major aspects of eighteenth century British history. The information included is chronological, statistical, tabular and bibliographical, and the book begins with the...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 372 p. Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain’s mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts. As British chancellor of the exchequer in 1767, Charles Townshend...
Liverpool University Press, 2015. — 482 p. The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain is planned as one work to be published in three interlinking volumes (titles/publication dates detailed below). It examines the history of the French communities in Britain from the Civil War, which plunged them into turmoil, to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, after which there was no realistic...
Picador, 2015. — 704 p. Janice Hadlow's A Royal Experiment is a masterpiece. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, this heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction and royal sacrifice is an absolute page-turner. From the first pages of Janice Hadlow's enthralling A Royal Experiment you know you are in the hands of a master narrator as well as a profoundly perceptive...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 150 p. Could you successfully be a Georgian? Find yourself immersed in the pivotal world of Georgian England, exciting times to live in as everything was booming; the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the nascent Empire; inhabited by Mary Shelley, the Romantic Poets and their contemporaries. However, rather than just wondering about the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 387 p. The glories of the Age of Anne--the union of England and Scotland to form "this island of Britain", and its establishment as a European and a global power--were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and her Lord Treasurer, Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, of whom...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 714 p. To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Revolution brilliantly captures the sense that this was...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 432 p. — (The Yale English Monarchs Series). In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concealed...
Routledge, 2012. — 289 p. Originally published in 1984, this book charts the political and social consequences of Methodist expansion in the first century of its existence. While the relationship between Methodism and politics is the central subject of the book a number of other important themes are also developed. The Methodist revival is placed in the context of European...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 864 p. Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal' marriage to Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations and his witty one-liners, including one he...
Routledge, 2014. — 278 p. This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of...
Macmillan Education, 1997. — 181 p. Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Sex Before Discourse The Public Cultures of Sex 'The Surest Way of Wooing': Marriage, Courtship and Sexuality The Body, Medicine and Sexual Difference Subcultures and Sodomites: the Development of Homosexuality Tribades, Cross-Dressers and Romantic Friendship Sexual Fear and the Regulation of Society...
Stanford University Press, 1996. — 359 p. This volume brings together the work of leading American, British, and Dutch scholars who present a series of interpretive case studies on a wide variety of political, economic, religious, and cultural issues surrounding the British "Glorious Revolution" of 1688.
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 304 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist country. Modern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Industrial Revolution, though scholars have long debated why. Some attribute...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 304 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world’s first capitalist country. Modern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Industrial Revolution, though scholars have long debated why. Some attribute...
Routledge, 2014. — 456 p. This textbook includes a lifetime's study by Geoffrey Holmes and more recent research by Daniel Szechi. Its main focus is the relationship of state and society, and it contrasts the politically divided nation still existing in 1722 with the relative political stability, stronger government and increasingly prosperity achieved by the 1780s. According to...
Macmillan Education, 1969. — 251 p. Introduction: Post-Revolution Britain and the Historian. The Revolution and the Constitution. The Revolution in Foreign Policy. The Revolution and the People. The Structure of Parliamentary Politics. William III and the Politicians. Conflict in Society. Conflict in the Church. The Road to Union. The Road to Peace, 1710–1713. Harley, St John...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 256 p. Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 256 p. Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way. It did so to force Scotland to accept an Act of Union: to submerge its independence within...
Oxford University Press, 2000. - 624 p.
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198228422
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780198228424
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: war in Ireland,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 412 p. The Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these acts, revealing how government affected economic life in this critical period prior to the...
Manchester University Press, 1977. — 401 p. This is a full-scale narrative of the political history of William III's reign, with fundamental emphasis on the interaction between crown and Parliament. Professor Horwitz takes into account local and popular inputs into this process but keeps in focus the decision making at the national level.
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 232 p. The years 1780 to 1820 have long been seen as the Golden Age of the English satirical print. This period witnessed a number of changes in style which had far-reaching consequences, including an increase in the effectiveness of the caricature as visual propaganda. William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox were the leading politicians of the age,...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 232 p. The years 1780 to 1820 have long been seen as the Golden Age of the English satirical print. This period witnessed a number of changes in style which had far-reaching consequences, including an increase in the effectiveness of the caricature as visual propaganda. William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox were the leading politicians of the age,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 256 p. The Girl I Left Behind Me addresses a neglected aspect of the history of the Hanoverian army. From 1685 to the beginning of the Victorian era, army administration attempted to discourage marriage among men in almost all ranks. It fostered a misogynist culture of the bachelor soldier who trifled with feminine hearts and avoided...
Oxford University Press. Assosiate editors: Mee Jon, Russell Gillian, Tuite Clara. 1999. - 795 p.
Transforming Polity and Nation
Reordering Social and Private Worlds
Culture, Consumption, and the Arts
Emerging Knowledges
This Companion divides into two separate, but interconnected, parts: major essays, followed
by alphabetical entries. In Part One there is a series of long...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 379 p. This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularizers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. Robespierre's Reign of Terror spawned an evil little twin in William Pitt the Younger's Reign of Alarm, 1792-1798. Terror begat Alarm. Many lives and careers were ruined in Britain as a result of the alarmist regime Pitt set up to suppress domestic dissent while waging his disastrous wars against republican France. Liberal young writers...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 414 р. Examines sermons preached at national thanksgiving celebrations to show in detail what it meant to be properly British in the period. This book is the first concentrated study of almost 600 sermons from over forty national thanksgivings in Britain during the long eighteenth century. These included celebrations of the 'Glorious' Revolution, the...
Routledge, 2006. — 332 p. Focusing on the institutions and players of central and local government during an era of great transformation, Peter Jupp examines the cohesive nature of the British state, and how Britain was governed between 1688 and 1848. Divided into two parts, bisected by the accession of George III in 1760, this study: examines the changes to the framework and...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 312 p. A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder’s diary provides an illuminating, real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and...
Irish Academic Press, 1997. — 480 p. Few men have risen to prominence more rapidly or spectacularly than John Fitzgibbon. Entering parliament in 1778, he was Attorney General within five years, Lord Chancellor in 1789. In 1794 he advanced to the rank of Viscount of Limerick and, in 1795, he attained the Earldom of Clare. A fervent advocate of the current governmental philosophy...
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 238 p.
A critical contribution to the history of Britain and the U.S., this book demonstrates how the search for personal supernatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival. John Kent rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 312 p. Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd’s point of departure is the widely...
History Press, 2011. — 444 p. Mary (1662-1694), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English Throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-1650), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England, who was eleven years...
London and New York: Routledge, 2017. — 236 p. The Nine Years’ War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw the creation of the Bank of England; a sudden sharp fall in the external value of the pound; a massive undertaking to melt down and recoin most of the nation’s silver currency; a failed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 260 p. Although there have been military, social, and labor histories examining sailors, this book employs the methods of cultural history to systematically integrate Jack Tar, the common seaman, into larger narratives about British national identity. If, as it has been argued, “Britishness” was defined in terms of one’s contribution to military...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. — 352 p., 412 illus. With a foreword by Patrick O'Brian, Nelson's Navy is the definitive reference work on the British Navy in the Napoleonic era for individuals with an interest in the workings of the greatest fleet of the sailing era. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy, the book contains...
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. — 352 p., 412 illus. With a foreword by Patrick O'Brian, Nelson's Navy is the definitive reference work on the British Navy in the Napoleonic era for individuals with an interest in the workings of the greatest fleet of the sailing era. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy, the book contains considerable...
Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 208 pages : illustrations (b&w, and col.), maps (b&w, and col.). May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has today become the embodiment of the great Age of Sail. Many books have been written about...
Seaforth Publishing, 2015. — 208 p. May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson and his great victory at Trafalgar and which, still extant, has today become the embodiment of the great Age of Sail. Many books have been written about Victory but none like this, which tells the full story of the ship since...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1878. — 600 p. Vol. 1 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise (which he opposed), and Irish Home Rule (which he...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. — 713 p. Vol. 2 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise (which he opposed), and Irish Home Rule (which...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. — 501 p. Vol. 3 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise (which he opposed), and Irish Home Rule (which he...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. — 499 p. Vol. 4 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. Vol. IV deals with the American Revolution. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise...
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1887. — 618 p. Vol. 5 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. This volume covers the French Revolution. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise (which...
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1887. — 630 p. Vol. 6 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. This volume covers the history of Ireland. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise (which...
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1917. — 495 p. Vol. 7 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. This volume covers the French Revolution and English social and economic history (including opposition to the slave trade. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in...
London: Longman, Green and Co., 1890. — 667 p. Vol. 8 of a 8 volume work which took Lecky 19 years to complete and which made his reputation as a scholar. This volume covers the Rebellion in Ireland. William Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish essayist and historian who wrote on the rise of rationalism in Europe, the history of 18th century England, the spread of the franchise...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 286 p. This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties...
Ashgate Publ., 2014. — 286 p. This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 320 p. In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers,...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 320 p. In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers,...
Routledge, 2017. — 327 p. This book is unique in bringing together all strands of English Jacobism in an accessible chronological framework, highlighting key individuals, providing a biographical dictionary of less well known English Jacobites, an account of the major primary source material, and a gazetteer of places to visit. It will appeal to any member of the general public...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 400 p. The making of the United Kingdom in 1707 is still a matter of significant political and historical controversy. Allan Macinnes here offers a major new interpretation that sets the Act of Union within a broad European and colonial context and provides a comprehensive picture of its transatlantic and transoceanic ramifications which ranged...
Routledge, 2017. — 350 p. This is the first reset edition of Henderson's The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1766). Henderson wrote two open letters to Samuel Johnson, criticizing his account of Scotland and the Scottish character as well as taking a side-swipe at Smollet. These too are included together with a new introduction to Henderson and his works.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 300 p. The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 changed the lives of English republicans for good. Despite the Declaration of Breda, where Charles II promised to forgive those who had acted against his father and the monarchy during the Civil War and Interregnum, opponents of the Stuart regime felt unsafe, and many were actively...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 224 p. Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs lived an incredible life, one which proved that fact is often much stranger than fiction. As a young woman she endured a tortured existence at the hands of a male tormentor, but emerged from that to reinvent herself as a playwright and author; a political pamphleteer and a spy, working for the British...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 192 p. Marvel at the Queen’s Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theater and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a new-fangled hot air balloon....
Boydell Press, 2019. — 294 p. James Francis Edward Stuart, the Prince of Wales born in 1688, was not a commoner's child smuggled into the queen's birthing chamber in a warming pan, but many people said he was. In 1708, the same prince did not quite land in Scotland with a force of 5,000 men in order to claim the Scottish crown, but writers busied themselves with exploring what...
University of Delaware Press, 2009. — 245 p. This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal...
Clarendon Press, 1994. — 280 p. William Blake's work presents a stern challenge to historical criticism. Jon Mee's study meets that challenge by investigating contexts outside the domain of standard literary histories. He traces the distinctive rhetoric of the illuminated books to the French Revolution controversy of the 1790s and Blake's fusion of the diverse currents of...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2014. — 152 p. First published in 1983, John Miller's Glorious Revolution established itself as the standard introduction to the subject. It examines the dramatic events themselves and demonstrates the profound impact the Revolution had on subsequent British history. The Second Edition contains a fuller discussion of Scotland and Ireland, the growth...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 291 p. This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.
Yale University Press, 2015. — 272 p. How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties,...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 461 p. This is an innovative study of middle class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a new reading of the ways in which middle class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 384 p. A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons - men of good family but small fortune. In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 384 p. A portrait of Jane Austen’s England told through the career paths of younger sons - men of good family but small fortune. In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 728 p. A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend....
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — xviii+355 p. Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — XVII, 453 p. This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of...
Routledge, 1996. — 169 p. This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers and journals, parliamentary papers and the records of merchants involved in the...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 182 p. In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 285 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 is a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire during the later years of the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, such as letters, diaries, and broadside ballads, it offers fresh...
Routledge, 2022. — 280 p. In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged compared to the military perspective or that of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 320 p. During the long eighteenth century, ideas of society and of social progress were first fully investigated. These investigations took place in the contexts of economic, theological, historical and literary writings which paid unprecedented attention to the place of women. Combining intellectual history with literary criticism, Karen...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 464 p. This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 464 p. This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure...
Hogarth Blake Ltd, 2008. — 162 p. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The book describes Equiano's time spent in slavery, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual conversion to Christianity....
Ashgate Publishing, 2007. — 316 p. Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709) was the closest confidant of William III and arguably the most important politician in Williamite Britain. Beginning his career in 1664 as page to William of Orange, his fortunes gained momentum with the Prince's rise to power in the Netherlands and Britain, emerging as William's favourite at...
Atria Books, 2022. — 432 p. As maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Chudleigh enjoyed a luxurious life in the inner circle of the Hanoverian court. With her extraordinary style and engaging wit, she both delighted and scandalized the press and public. She would later even inspire William Thackeray when he was writing his classic Vanity Fair, providing the...
Jonathan Cape, 2011. — 495 p. The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious. Only a generation earlier, The Pretender failed to take the Crown; the new King is...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 255 p. Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Professor Dickinson’s students, friends...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 288 p. While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to a radical intellectual culture. Drawing on both original material and a range of interdisciplinary insights, Radical Conduct transforms our understanding of the literary radicalism of London at the time of the French...
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 224 p. Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from those that had pertained for centuries. Girls were largely barred from education - only around 14% of women could read and write by 1700 - and the few educated women were not permitted to enter the...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 664 p. Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England’s Glorious Revolution to claim that it—not the French Revolution—was the first truly modern revolution. For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution—bloodless,...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 272 p. This book seeks to rewrite assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. The author studies canonical and noncanonical literature and uncovers a new "four nations" literary history defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers. Sources...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. — 163 p. (British history in perspective) The last genuine rebellion on British soil, the Jacobite rising of 1745 forms one of the greatest 'what ifs' of British history. If Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops had defeated the forces of George II, it is fair to say that the entire subsequent course of the country's history would have been...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 272 p. In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was a crisis not only for Britain...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 p. Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a saga of passion and pathos, tragedy and black comedy, feuding and fighting - all set in...
Cresset Press, 1956. — 387 p. A re-assessment of Sir Robert Walpole's life and work has long been needed. Dr. Plumb's biography is the first fully documented study since Archdeacon Coxe's Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole which appeared more than an a century and a half ago. In the interval much new manuscript material has become available which has radically...
Penguin Books, 1991. — 448 p. A social portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. Roy Porter's new edition of his celebrated book of English cultural history was revised in light of changes in...
Casemate Publishers, 2017. — 288 p. John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as the late Lord Chatham, the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 216 p. Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reigns of Georges I-IV. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often determined by those in...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 154 p. Other books deal with the men under the spotlight of fame - the lead singers' of the Industrial Revolution. What this book tries to do is to focus on the other boys in the band' - the less famous inventors, artists, engineers and industrialists who played their part in the enormous changes that occurred in the eighteenth century. You will...
Pen & Sword History, 2018. — 176 p. Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that inequality the legal barriers, the lack of education, the prejudices and misconceptions held by men and also examines the reluctance of women to compete on an equal footing. Why...
Liverpool University Press, 2008. — 329 p. As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid growth and prosperity, slavery left an indelible mark on the history of the city. This collection of essays, boasting an international roster of leading scholars in the...
Manchester University Press, 1978. — 351 p. Since 1603 England and Scotland had been under the same monarchs. After revolutions in 1688–1689 (see Glorious Revolution) and 1702–1703, projects for a closer union miscarried, and in 1703–1704 international tension provoked a dangerous legislative warfare between the separate parliaments of England and Scotland. On both sides of the...
Viking, 2021. — 784 p. The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating - and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon - a heartless and terrible monarch...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 225 p. The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that...
Blackwell Publishers, 1999. — 356 p. This book presents a fresh interpretation of the modern England's historical period, reconstructing the reign of king William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The 1690s is one of the most poorly understood decades in English history. This book presents a fresh interpretation of the period, reconstructing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 241 p. This book examines the Whig theory of resistance that emerged from the Revolution of 1688 in England, and presents an important challenge to the received opinion of Whig thought as confused and as inferior to the revolutionary principles set forth by John Locke. While a wealth of Whig literature is analyzed, Rudolph focuses upon the work of...
Routledge, 1992. — 284 p. This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class, middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards...
Routledge, 2014. — 417 p. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working British people during the modern period from 1750 to 1850.
Boydell Press, 2021. — 218 p. The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia. It looks at the origins of the Society of Friends in mid seventeenth century England and follows its development into a well organised sect with a sophisticated organisational structure spreading across the Atlantic world. The...
Clarendon Press, 1963. — 491 pp. This work was lightly begun in 1953, to find the basis for those fragmentary and often contradictory legends of the Lunar Society which, since mid-nineteenth century, have increasingly been standard repertory in works dealing with eighteenth-century England. Although the Society, as such, left no record, the letters and papers of its members...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 325 p. This volume of novel and interdisciplinary essays offers a new interpretation of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world. By dealing with little-explored issues from the perspectives of British, Dutch, and colonial American history, and of British political and religious history and theory, literature, law, and...
Birlinn, 2019. — 255 р. This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight through the heather are well known, but...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 351 p. For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser, as...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 359 p. Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660-1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored Stuart monarchy, this original and important study examines how armies...
Routledge, 1992. — 359 p. John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic...
Routledge, 1993. — 380 p. The study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged the central concepts of British history. Brewer argues that the power of the British state increased dramatically when it was forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire. In An...
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. — 262 p. How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Framing...
Routledge, 2016. — 227 p. Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or...
Routledge, 2014. — 302 p. An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller communities as well as the larger industrialising towns. Among the issues examined are demography, social stratification, manners, religion, gender, dissent, amenities and entertainment, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 324 p. This is a book about the history of the family in eighteenth-century England. Naomi Tadmor provides a new interpretation of concepts of household, family, and kinship starting from her analysis of contemporary language (in the diaries of Thomas Turner;in conduct treatises by Samuel Richardson and Eliza Haywood;and in three novels,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 225 p. After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government, made possible by better property-rights protection, lead to a rapid expansion of private credit. The Industrial Revolution, according to this view, is the result of...
Manchester University Press, 2003. — 272 p. In this fascinating book the author discusses the political story of the first decade of the reign of George III, one of the most controversial figures in modern British history. George III has often been blamed for the loss of Britain’s American colonies in an attempt to restore royal power. Peter D.G. Thomas confirms Namier’s findings...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 224 p. Though little known to most students of the American Revolution, the British Radicals of the 1770s championed the rights of Americans while advocating parliamentary reform and denouncing British colonial policies. Outspoken, eloquent, and innovative, the Radicals encouraged the American cause. They voiced ideas on liberty and empire...
Frontline Books, 2020. — 295 p. Born in 1765 in Neston, Cheshire, Amy Lyon took the stagecoach to London, beginning her remarkable journey to international fame. Soon to be known as “Emma,” she worked for various actresses at Drury Lane Theatre before becoming a dancer, a model and, later, a hostess. Her beauty brought her to the attention of Charles Grenville, the second son...
Routledge, 2017. — 380 p. In Britain the name of William III is synonymous with sectarianism and Orangism. Ever since he burst onto the English political landscape in 1688 to take the throne of his catholic uncle, James II, William has tended to be viewed within a largely domestic sphere. Yet, it has been acknowledged that William's main motivation in accepting the English...
Routledge, 2017. — 380 p. In Britain the name of William III is synonymous with sectarianism and Orangism. Ever since he burst onto the English political landscape in 1688 to take the throne of his catholic uncle, James II, William has tended to be viewed within a largely domestic sphere. Yet, it has been acknowledged that William's main motivation in accepting the English...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 239 p. Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658-1727 makes an important contribution to the debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public through mapping shifts in the national 'mood'. The...
Pen & Sword History, 2021. — 224 p. In February 1685, James II succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne. His popularity had soared and fallen during his brother’s reign. During a period of less than forty years that had seen the execution of their father, Charles I, the proclamation of a republic, and restoration of the monarchy a few years later, nothing could be...
The History Press, 2013. — 240 p. This biography of the last king to lead British troops into battle and his able wife provides intriguing insight into 18th century war and politics. Often derided as the buffoon who "hated all poets and painters", George II was fortunate to be served by Prime Ministers Sir Robert Walpole and William Pitt, and was wise enough to leave the...
The History Press, 2013. — 152 p. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was little choice available for a princess of the royal blood in Europe. The lives of their brothers were generally preordained – a throne for the eldest, ‘education’ through foreign travel and perhaps token attendance at university, followed by military or naval service and a...
The History Press, 2003. — 288 p. William III and Mary II are the only joint reigning sovereigns in English history. Brought to power as a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 which deposed Mary's father - the Catholic King James II - their reign was a crucial period during which new restrictions of royal power helped to lay the foundations of modern constitutional...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008. — 294 p. The maritime war against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Sir James Saumarez. He had had a highly successful career as a post-Captain,...
St. Martin's Publishing, 2007. — 480 p. In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel – and a revolution. James II's drive towards Catholicism had alienated the nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters by his first marriage, Mary and Anne, the 'ungrateful daughters' who eventually usurped their father's crown and stole their half-brother's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1986. — 207 p. Slavery and a Free Land. Slaves in England. Black Society in England. Recurring Themes: Black Images in White Culture. Abolishing the Trade: Public Sentiment and Abolition, 1776–1807. Outraging Opinion: Slavery in the Aftermath of Abolition. Confronting Slavery: Pressing for Black Freedom. Freedom in the Shadow of Slavery.
Oxford University Press, 1960. — 665 p. A well written and thorough look at the politics, economics, culture, and current events of the period. An English perspective on the American Revolution and war of 1812 gives a more balanced and reason based cause within a more global perspective. This is a truly excellent biography telling the sympathetic truth about one of the most...
Routledge, 1998. — 248 p. This new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence Nightingale. Ruth Watts examines how far they were...
Manchester University Press, 2008. — 272 p. Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested. Using sources that range...
The History Press, 2014. — Fanny Murray (1729-1770) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman's heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the 'London stews' to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. Her Memoirs (the first...
A historical book. — Harvard University Press, 2013. — 704 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-07317-3. London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of scientific and artistic...
Random House, 2019. — 810 p. London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of scientific and artistic genius, of blossoming reason, civility, elegance and manners. It...
Pen and Sword History, 2014. — 176 p. Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen’s birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the...
Pen and Sword History, 2014. — 176 p. Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Austen’s contemporaries. Packed with detail, and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen’s birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 209 p. The Third Duke of Portland served twice as Prime Minster and had a long and distinguished political career from 1760s to the 1780s. This study details how he was transformed from a pillar of the grand Whiggery (he was the brother-in-law of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) into the figurehead for would-be Tories. The book also examines how he...
Houghton Mifflin, 2000. — 379 p. This text, which is the third volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced...
Oxford University Press, 1962. — 542 p. Basil Williams had extensive experience, including that of being a clerk to the House of Commons, before becoming an academic over the age of 50. ‘The Whig Supremacy ‘1714-1760’ covers the reigns of the first two Hanoverian kings of England providing extensive coverage of the transition from the Stuart monarchical claims to the more...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — 256 p. A large proportion of London's population lived in lodgings during the long 18th century, many of whom recorded their experiences. In this fascinating study, Gillian Williamson examines these experiences, recorded in correspondences and autobiographies, to offer unseen insights into the social lives of Londoners in this period, and the...
The History Press, 2014. — 208 p. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is a story of intrigue, plot and counter-plot, religious rivalry, and nationalist fervor. It tells of a stubborn and bigoted king (James VII & II) in conflict with his subjects—a conflict in which he was finally forced to put aside his crown and make way for his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange....
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 275 p. Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men;He marched them up to the top of the hill,And he marched them down again.And when they were up, they were up,And when they were down, they were down,And when they were only half-way up,They were neither up nor down.Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany is famous because of the nursery...
Edinburgh: H.M. Stationery Office, 1995. — 128 p. Eight contributors, all expert in their field, give an amazingly detailed portrait in this collection of essays of the events of 1745 that have grown to mythic proportions. Both side's points of view are discussed, along with examinations of the personalities, battles and the aftermath. Foreword Introduction List of...
Faber & Faber, 2011
A great general interest read for anyone with any level of prior knowledge in the Eighteenth century Court and George I and George II's family life. The famous and the unknown people in this world are brought to life in these beautifully written chapters. Very readable.
Faber & Faber, 2011
A great general interest read for anyone with any level of prior knowledge in the Eighteenth century Court and George I and George II's family life. The famous and the unknown people in this world are brought to life in these beautifully written chapters. Very readable.
Faber & Faber, 2011
A great general interest read for anyone with any level of prior knowledge in the Eighteenth century Court and George I and George II's family life. The famous and the unknown people in this world are brought to life in these beautifully written chapters. Very readable.
Routledge, 2015. — 208 p. Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century modern England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant aspect of their identity. Aged Identities: Prescriptive Behaviour for ‘Old Men’.
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. The church of the eighteenth century was still reeling in the wake of the huge religious upheavals of the two previous centuries. Though this was a comparatively quiet period, this book shows that for the whole period, religion was a major factor in the lives of virtually everybody living in Britain and Ireland. Yates argues that the established...
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. The church of the eighteenth century was still reeling in the wake of the huge religious upheavals of the two previous centuries. Though this was a comparatively quiet period, this book shows that for the whole period, religion was a major factor in the lives of virtually everybody living in Britain and Ireland. Yates argues that the established...
Ohio State University Press, 2005. — 239 p. Introduction: Cultural Narratives of Illegitimacy. Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy in The Conscious Lovers. Moll Flanders and the English “Shelter for Bastards”. Kicking Out the Cubs: The Wrong Heirs in Richardson’s Clarissa. Tom Jones: Resisting the Mythologization of Bastardy. Female Philanthropy,...
Москва: Типография Кряжева, Готье и Мея, 1802. — 350 с. Известный немецкий писатель и историк Иоганн Вильгельм фон Архенгольц (1743-1812) в 1770-х годах в общей сложности 6 лет прожил в Англии, и тогда же неоднократно - в 1775, 1777 и 1780 годах бывал в Италии. В своём шеститомном труде «England und Italien», впервые изданном в Лейпциге в 1785-м году, Архенгольц подробно...
Москва: Типография Кряжева и Мея, 1803. — 305 с. Известный немецкий писатель и историк Иоганн Вильгельм фон Архенгольц (1743-1812) в 1770-х годах в общей сложности 6 лет прожил в Англии, и тогда же неоднократно - в 1775, 1777 и 1780 годах бывал в Италии. В своём шеститомном труде «England und Italien», впервые изданном в Лейпциге в 1785-м году, Архенгольц подробно информировал...
Москва: Типография Кряжева и Мея, 1803. — 295 с. Известный немецкий писатель и историк Иоганн Вильгельм фон Архенгольц (1743-1812) в 1770-х годах в общей сложности 6 лет прожил в Англии, и тогда же неоднократно - в 1775, 1777 и 1780 годах бывал в Италии. В своём шеститомном труде «England und Italien», впервые изданном в Лейпциге в 1785-м году, Архенгольц подробно информировал...
Москва: Типография Кряжева и Мея, 1804. — 225 с. Известный немецкий писатель и историк Иоганн Вильгельм фон Архенгольц (1743-1812) в 1770-х годах в общей сложности 6 лет прожил в Англии, и тогда же неоднократно - в 1775, 1777 и 1780 годах бывал в Италии. В своём шеститомном труде «England und Italien», впервые изданном в Лейпциге в 1785-м году, Архенгольц подробно информировал...
С-Пб.: Типография И. И. Глазунова, 1860. — 214 с.
Публичные лекции Генриха Вызинского. Специально адаптированные и переработанные в научно-популярную форму для чтений на широкую аудиторию. Посвящены политической истории Англии XVIII века.
Монография. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2022. – 292 с. — ISBN 978-5-7996-3509-1. Монография посвящена анализу интеллектуального наследия английского лексикографа, литератора и моралиста Сэмюэла Джонсона (1709–1784) в контексте истории Британии XVIII столетия. В центре внимания – отражение проблем...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2009. — 776 с. В сборнике представлены эссе, дневники, письма, путевые заметки, афоризмы, памфлеты, биографии, мемуары и очерки лучших английских писателей-сатириков XVIII века. С перепиской Свифта и Стерна, с дневниками Сэмюэля Пипса, с романами-пародиями семнадцатилетней Джейн Остен, с фрагментами из биографии крупнейшего английского...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 448 с. Классическое исследование по истории эпохи промышленной революции XVIII века. Под промышленной революцией понимают совокупность технико-экономических и социальных сдвигов, сопровождавших переход от мануфактурной стадии производства к фабричной системе, машинной индустрии. Термин «промышленная революция» был предложен А. Бланки (1837) и Ф. Энгельсом...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1937. — 448 с.
Классическое исследование по истории эпохи промышленной революции XVIII века.
Под промышленной революцией понимают совокупность технико-экономических и социальных сдвигов, сопровождавших переход от мануфактурной стадии производства к фабричной системе, машинной индустрии. Термин «промышленная революция» был предложен А. Бланки (1837) и Ф. Энгельсом...
СПб.: Типография В.Ф. Киршбаума, 1902. — 465 с.
Составлено подполковником Генерального Штаба, и.о. делопроизводителя Канцелярии Военно-Учёного Комитета Главного Штаба (в современном представлении это аналитическая служба разведки).
Обзор военных средств Англии в конце XVIII и начале XIX столетия.
Географическое положение.
Общий очерк экономического состояния главнейших...
Научно-популярное издание. — Пер. с англ. Н.Я. Тартаковская. — М.: АСТ, 2017. — 928 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-093349-5 (Страницы истории). — ISBN: 978-5-17-101157-4 (История в одном томе). Английскую «Славную революцию» 1688 года, в результате которой был свергнут последний из королей династии Стюартов Яков II, принято считать не только мирной и бескровной, но и почти патриархальной,...
Научно-популярное издание. — Пер. с англ. Н.Я. Тартаковская. — М.: АСТ, 2017. — 928 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-093349-5 (Страницы истории). — ISBN: 978-5-17-101157-4 (История в одном томе). Английскую «Славную революцию» 1688 года, в результате которой был свергнут последний из королей династии Стюартов Яков II, принято считать не только мирной и бескровной, но и почти патриархальной,...
Монография. — Самара: Изд-во СамНЦ РАН, 2008. — 360 с. — ISBN 978-5-93424-349-5. Книга посвящена истории возникновения раннего английского радикализма и его программе парламентской реформы. На основании большого фактического материала показаны основные этапы развития радикального движения, даны портреты его лидеров, анализируется радикальная идейная доктрина. Политическая...
Монография. — М.: Либроком, 2011. — 352 с. — (Из наследия мировой политологии). — ISBN: 9785397019620. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга английского историка и экономиста Арнольда Тойнби (1852 — 1883), в которой представлена история промышленного переворота в Англии. Опираясь на обширные материалы, автор дает яркую и подробную картину коренных изменений в экономике и...
Монография. — М.: Либроком, 2011. — 352 с. — (Из наследия мировой политологии). — ISBN: 9785397019620. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга английского историка и экономиста Арнольда Тойнби (1852 — 1883), в которой представлена история промышленного переворота в Англии. Опираясь на обширные материалы, автор дает яркую и подробную картину коренных изменений в экономике и...
М.: Либроком, 2011. — 348 с. — (Из наследия мировой политологии). — ISBN: 978-5-397-01962-0 Вниманию читателей предлагается книга английского историка и экономиста Арнольда Тойнби, в которой представлена история промышленного переворота в Англии в XVIII веке. Опираясь на обширные материалы, автор дает яркую и подробную картину коренных изменений в экономике и социальной...
Смоленск: Русич, 2003. — 384 с. Maureen Waller. 1700 Scenes from London Life. В книге современной английской писательницы Морин Уоллер подробно и разносторонне описывается столица Великобритании город Лондон на рубеже XVII и XVIII веков: егo политическая, экономическая и культурная жизнь; быт, традиции, нравы людей разных сословий; отношение общества к личности, семье, труду,...
Смоленск: Русич, 2003. - 384 с. Maureen Waller. 1700 Scenes from London Life. В книге современной английской писательницы Морин Уоллер подробно и разносторонне описывается столица Великобритании город Лондон на рубеже XVII и XVIII веков: егo политическая, экономическая и культурная жизнь; быт, традиции, нравы людей разных сословий; отношение общества к личности, семье, труду,...
Монография. — М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1962. — 718 с. — (История английского рабочего движения в Новое время).
В монографии на богатом фактическом материале рассматриваются массовые движения трудящихся Англии в эпоху Промышленной революции и национально-освободительная борьба ирландского народа против английских колонизаторов.
Экономическое развитие Англии в конце XVIII в....
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1962. — 718 с. В монографии на богатом фактическом материале рассматриваются массовые движения трудящихся Англии в эпоху Промышленной революции и национально-освободительная борьба ирландского народа против английских колонизаторов.
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