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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... human action . This linking of discourses across society tends to dissolve modern categories of analysis and helps us move back to those of the time : the history of concepts is here presented as the history of their uses in argument ...
... human action . This linking of discourses across society tends to dissolve modern categories of analysis and helps us move back to those of the time : the history of concepts is here presented as the history of their uses in argument ...
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... human association in the abstract , sociability itself and therefore those with whom one lived in association : by extension , a particular milieu ( ' polite society ' ) or a political alliance . Locke had no strong sense of society as ...
... human association in the abstract , sociability itself and therefore those with whom one lived in association : by extension , a particular milieu ( ' polite society ' ) or a political alliance . Locke had no strong sense of society as ...
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... human immortality . Apart from a small but noisy group of publicists in the Edinburgh Review and the circle of Holland House , the talent of the country seemed largely aligned with the existing order . Compared to France , England in ...
... human immortality . Apart from a small but noisy group of publicists in the Edinburgh Review and the circle of Holland House , the talent of the country seemed largely aligned with the existing order . Compared to France , England in ...
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... human association . 19 By contrast , " That every individual is endowed with reason and free will and is presumed capable of acting morally , according to his private judgement , was for the Nonconformists not so much an empirical ...
... human association . 19 By contrast , " That every individual is endowed with reason and free will and is presumed capable of acting morally , according to his private judgement , was for the Nonconformists not so much an empirical ...
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... human affairs , of transformative novelty , which was indeed present from the American and French Revolu- tions , could still be traced to theology , and even in a literal sense to millenarianism , the idea of the thousand - year rule ...
... human affairs , of transformative novelty , which was indeed present from the American and French Revolu- tions , could still be traced to theology , and even in a literal sense to millenarianism , the idea of the thousand - year rule ...
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