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Hilton, a professor at Cambridge, has written a lively and wide-ranging study that is mercifully free of dry chronology. He trains his sights on a particular brand of conservative historiography. Jonathan Clark's enormously influential work English Society, 1688-1832, first published in 1985, portrayed the Britain of the "long 18th century" as a European-style ancien régime governed by monarchy, aristocracy and a totalising Anglican church.
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The Road to Democracy
The English in the 18th century were not forelock-tugging, Church-and-King types but an adventurous and eclectic people eager to embrace scientific progress and political change. TRISTRAM HUNT on the foundations of the first modern nation
The road to democracy A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 Boyd Hilton Oxfor...See the full content of this document
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