Royal Historical Society Transactions
Subtitle: Volume 8, 1998, Sixth Series
Contributors: Royal Historical Society (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521650090
Subjects: World history; History: World; Great Britain - History; History; History - General History; British Isles; Europe; Russia; Modern - 18th Century; Historiography; World - General; History / World; History, Modern; History-Historiography; History-Modern - 18th Century; Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
First sentence: BY the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her European rivals could match.