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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... important claim , that too many historians have unwisely secularized the eighteenth century and that the politics of the period cannot be properly understood without reference to the importance of religion , the power of popular ...
... important claim , that too many historians have unwisely secularized the eighteenth century and that the politics of the period cannot be properly understood without reference to the importance of religion , the power of popular ...
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... important , 1760-1793 Why Methodism and Evangelicalism sustained the hegemony of Anglican political theology , 1760-1832 The strange rebirth of Anglican hegemony , 1789-1815 256 284 300 4 BEFORE RADICALISM : THE RELIGIOUS ORIGINS OF ...
... important , 1760-1793 Why Methodism and Evangelicalism sustained the hegemony of Anglican political theology , 1760-1832 The strange rebirth of Anglican hegemony , 1789-1815 256 284 300 4 BEFORE RADICALISM : THE RELIGIOUS ORIGINS OF ...
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... importance of contingency ; it came at the beginning of a phase in which we returned to the study of continuities ( and counter - factuals ) , and it contributed to the identification of just what the content and the outlines of those 1 ...
... importance of contingency ; it came at the beginning of a phase in which we returned to the study of continuities ( and counter - factuals ) , and it contributed to the identification of just what the content and the outlines of those 1 ...
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... important service to literary criticism with Keywords : A Vocabulary of Culture and Society ( Oxford , 1976 ) , a work which was , however , often too inexact about chronology to be historically revealing . For the way in which ...
... important service to literary criticism with Keywords : A Vocabulary of Culture and Society ( Oxford , 1976 ) , a work which was , however , often too inexact about chronology to be historically revealing . For the way in which ...
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... important meanings were stripped away , leaving a term still familiar in modern discourse but with a narrowed and specialised significa- tion . ' Family ' now denotes the ' nuclear family ' created by birth or marriage , where once it ...
... important meanings were stripped away , leaving a term still familiar in modern discourse but with a narrowed and specialised significa- tion . ' Family ' now denotes the ' nuclear family ' created by birth or marriage , where once it ...
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English Society, 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the ... J. C. D. Clark No preview available - 2000 |
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