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Great Britain since 1688; a modern history.

Author: K B Smellie
Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1962]
Series: The University of Michigan history of the modern world
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Smellie, K. B. (Kingsley Bryce), 1897-1987.
Great Britain since 1688.
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1962]
(OCoLC)564889660
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: K B Smellie
OCLC Number: 249713
Description: 462 p. illus. 24 cm.
Contents: The economic setting, 1688-1760 --
The revolution of 1689 and the world of Walpole --
Britain and the world, 1688-1763 --
The beginnings of modern industry, 1760-1815 --
A balanced constitution, 1760-1815 --
Britain's wars with the revolutions, 1760-1815 --
The age of reason in British thought --
The workshop of the world, 1815-70 --
Wellington to Gladstone --
Sea power and the balance of power --
Economic vicissitudes, 1870-1914 --
The preface to democracy, 1867-1914 --
Sea power and imperial powers --
British thought from Blake to Darwin --
World war I and after, 1914-39 --
Aspects of democracy, 1914-39 --
The end of laissez faire, 1914-39 --
World war II and the atomic age --
The prece of victory and the cost of welfare --
Politics and government, 1939-61 --
British thought, 1870-1960.
Series Title: The University of Michigan history of the modern world

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