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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... object of our work is not political ' and advanced no systematic theory of a new position . It operated mainly by denigration and cultural critique in the manner familiar in reviews of that era , with sneers at such targets as the ...
... object of our work is not political ' and advanced no systematic theory of a new position . It operated mainly by denigration and cultural critique in the manner familiar in reviews of that era , with sneers at such targets as the ...
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... object of their economics . Movements of the economy , like those of history , were seen as cyclical rather than as linear - progressive ' : Boyd Hilton , The Age of Atonement : The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic ...
... object of their economics . Movements of the economy , like those of history , were seen as cyclical rather than as linear - progressive ' : Boyd Hilton , The Age of Atonement : The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic ...
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... object of ' nostalgia ' . As we have seen , the French word ' ancien ' means merely ' former ' or ' previous ' , not ' ancient ' . The term ancien régime initially identified France's pre - revolutionary regime as different from the ...
... object of ' nostalgia ' . As we have seen , the French word ' ancien ' means merely ' former ' or ' previous ' , not ' ancient ' . The term ancien régime initially identified France's pre - revolutionary regime as different from the ...
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... object is to outline a social order which preserved its hegemony despite repeated internal challenge ( and sometimes armed insurrection ) , challenge more frequent and more serious than in the comparable period after 1832 . States of ...
... object is to outline a social order which preserved its hegemony despite repeated internal challenge ( and sometimes armed insurrection ) , challenge more frequent and more serious than in the comparable period after 1832 . States of ...
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