The long eighteenth century British political and social history 1688 1832 2nd Edition by Frank Gorman 1472506944 9781472506948

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ISBN-10 :  1472506944 

ISBN-13 :  9781472506948

Author:  Frank O’Gorman 

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 of Britain and explores the growing sense of British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of state and society, in addition to society’s own move towards a class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain’s role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: – Revised and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of the 1832 Reform Act – New sections on ‘Commerce and Empire’ and ‘Britain and Europe’ – Several new maps and charts – A revised introduction and a more extensive conclusion – Updated note sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of this absorbing period of British history.

The long eighteenth century British political and social history 1688 1832 2nd Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Britain in the Later Seventeenth Century
Place
Belief
Gender
Society
Economy
Politics
Notes
Chapter 2 The Glorious Revolution in Britain
The Glorious Revolution in England
Crown and Parliament
Politics and parties
Britain and Europe
The Glorious Revolution and the unity of Britain
Notes
Chapter 3 Whiggism Supreme
The Hanoverian Succession
The Walpolean regime
The Pelhams and patriotism
Notes
Chapter 4 The Social Foundations of the Early Hanoverian Regime
The identity of Britain
The ruling order: oligarchy and deference
The middling orders: enterprise and docility
Urban society: culture and elites
The common people: assertion, festivity and direct action
Notes
Chapter 5 The Political Foundations of the Early Hanoverian Regime
Politics and print
Crown and Parliament
The state: central and local
Whigs and Tories
The Jacobites
Notes
Chapter 6 What Kind of Regime?
A stable regime?
A confessional regime?
A European Regime?
Notes
Chapter 7 Patriotism and Empire
Commerce and empire
William Pitt and the Seven Years’ War
The origins of the American Revolution
The American War of Independence
Notes
Chapter 8 The Age of George III
George III and the politicians
Politics and party
Reform politics
Notes
Chapter 9 The Crisis of the Hanoverian Regime
The revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Radicalism and patriotism
The politics of wartime and after
The avoidance of revolution
Notes
Chapter 10 State and Church in Later Hanoverian Britain
Monarchy and the party system
The state and the law
The retreat from the confessional state
Anglicans and Evangelicals
Methodists and Dissenters
Notes
Chapter 11 The Social Foundations of the Later Hanoverian Regime
The United Kingdom
An imperial and commercial nation
The social order
A transfiguring aristocracy
A cohering middle class
A self-conscious working class
Constructions of gender in later Hanoverian Britain
Notes
Chapter 12 The Renewal of the Regime
The coming of reform
The passage of reform
The Reform Act of 1832

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