British politics and society from Walpole to Pitt 1742-1789
By: edited by Jeremy Black.
Contributors: Black, Jeremy.
Series: Problems in focus series; Problems in focus series (London, England)
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760.; Great Britain -- History -- 1760-1789.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789.; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jeremy Black; title: English society in the eighteenth century revisited / Roy Porter; title: The British economy in transition 1742-1789 / William J. Hausman; title: Scotland and Ireland 1742-1789 / Bruce P. Lenman; title: The changing nature of parliamentary politics 1742-1789 / Ian R. Christie; title: Radicals and reformers in the age of Wilkes and Wyvill / H.T. Dickinson; title: Foreign policy and the British state 1742-1793 / Jeremy Black; title: The eighteenth-century empire / P.J. Marshall; title: Religion in British society 1740-1790 / David Hempton.