The sustained and profound debate on the rights of man is investigated, the practical efforts made to educate public opinion and to increase popular participati

This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and,

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Georgian Britain experienced a cultural renaissance in the form of the Enlightenment, the establishment of an empire & the beginning of the first industrial rev

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian