English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics During the Ancien RégimeThis is a revised and rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688-1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which questioned much of the received picture of English society as secular, modernising, contractarian, and middle class; it began the recovery of the 'long eighteenth century', the period which saw a form of state defined by the close relationship of monarchy, aristocracy and church. In particular, it placed religion at the center of social and intellectual life, and used ecclesiastical history to illuminate many historical themes more commonly examined in a secular framework. In its updated form, this book reinforces these theses with new evidence, which extends its arguments into fresh areas of inquiry. |
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... arguments into fresh areas of enquiry . From reviews of the first edition : ' It will force a revision of most of our ... argument undoubtedly is that religion was central to the experience of Englishmen of all kinds during these years ...
... arguments into fresh areas of enquiry . From reviews of the first edition : ' It will force a revision of most of our ... argument undoubtedly is that religion was central to the experience of Englishmen of all kinds during these years ...
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... argument , I trust it is on the basis of deeper knowledge . I hope that I have learned something in a period in which our understanding of so many major themes in English history has changed so fundamentally . The book appeared after ...
... argument , I trust it is on the basis of deeper knowledge . I hope that I have learned something in a period in which our understanding of so many major themes in English history has changed so fundamentally . The book appeared after ...
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... arguments about an alleged process of ' modernisation ' propounded by other disciplines in the social sciences . A ... argument . In particular , this strategy shows remarkable innovations that were concentrated in the early decades of ...
... arguments about an alleged process of ' modernisation ' propounded by other disciplines in the social sciences . A ... argument . In particular , this strategy shows remarkable innovations that were concentrated in the early decades of ...
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... argument has implications in both directions : just as the agrarian sector was not ' old ' , so a changing , developing economy like England's was not necessarily ' new ' in the sense in which we now use the word.3 The first and easiest ...
... argument has implications in both directions : just as the agrarian sector was not ' old ' , so a changing , developing economy like England's was not necessarily ' new ' in the sense in which we now use the word.3 The first and easiest ...
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... argument which traced authority to the earliest recorded history , to the days of the Patriarchs ; it was ... arguments in social - anthropological terms ; yet Englishmen in the long eighteenth century were remarkably dead to such impli ...
... argument which traced authority to the earliest recorded history , to the days of the Patriarchs ; it was ... arguments in social - anthropological terms ; yet Englishmen in the long eighteenth century were remarkably dead to such impli ...
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