Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783.(Book Review)

Jeremy Black. Eighteenth-Century Britain 1688-1783. (Palgrave History of Britain.) New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 312. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-333-53831-5.

There is no shortage of texts that cover eighteenth-century Britain, and now Jeremy Black has entered the lists with this volume, the first publication in the planned Palgrave History of Britain series. Because anything that Black has to say about the century is likely to be interesting, the reader comes to the book expecting to find illumination. That hope is realized, and even though this text will not supplant the others, ...

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