MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01908nam a22003138a 4500
001 2008044267
003 DLC
005 20081029091738.0
008 081020s2009 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008044267
020 $a9781405134446 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781405134453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aDA480$b.M64 2009
082 00 $a909/.0971241$222
100 1 $aMonod, Paul Kléber.
245 10 $aImperial island :$ba history of Britain and its empire, 1688-1837 /$cPaul Monod.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2009.
263 $a0903
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aNations, lands, peoples -- Nations and kingdoms -- Landscapes in motion -- Knowing one's place -- Party strife and revolution, 1660-1689 -- The culture of politics -- Preserving the constitution -- A disjointed empire -- The legacy of revolution, 1689-1722 -- The fortunes of war, 1689-1710 -- The crisis of the Hanoverian succession, 1710-1722 -- Art, science and politics -- State and empire, 1722-1760 -- Whigs and patriots, 1722-1760 -- Polite society and its discontents -- An empire emerging -- The fall of the first British empire, 1760-1784 -- The patriot king, 1760-1770 -- The American crisis, 1770-1784 -- The wealth of a nation -- Britain against revolution, 1784-1815 -- The nation preserved, 1784-1815 -- Remaking the empire -- Enlightened culture -- A new order begins, 1815-1837 -- The state reformed, 1815-1837 -- A class society -- Imperial portraits.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1689-1714.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1714-1837.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1689-1714.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$y1714-1837.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHistory$y19th century.