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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... society's basic public formulations , and the moral and religious experience of Englishmen . Equally , this study throws into sharp relief the challenges to those unities : an historical enquiry which extends into the early nineteenth ...
... society's basic public formulations , and the moral and religious experience of Englishmen . Equally , this study throws into sharp relief the challenges to those unities : an historical enquiry which extends into the early nineteenth ...
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... Society ' still generally meant only 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 ...
... Society ' still generally meant only 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 ...
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... societies evolve historically through certain stages was not common , and only began to be influential when it was ... society , especially the terms ' liberalism ' , ' radicalism ' and ' conservatism ' , still lay in the future : to ...
... societies evolve historically through certain stages was not common , and only began to be influential when it was ... society , especially the terms ' liberalism ' , ' radicalism ' and ' conservatism ' , still lay in the future : to ...
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... societies , one great episode stands proxy for the rest : 1776 in the United States , 1789 in France , 1917 in Russia . Now that the civil wars of the 1640s can no longer be explained as England's equivalent , an underlying theme is ...
... societies , one great episode stands proxy for the rest : 1776 in the United States , 1789 in France , 1917 in Russia . Now that the civil wars of the 1640s can no longer be explained as England's equivalent , an underlying theme is ...
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