A Land of Liberty Author:Julian Hoppit This book provides an authoritative general view of England between the Glorious Revolution and the death of George I and Isaac Newton. It is a very wide ranging survey, looking at politics, religion, economy, society, and culture. It also places England in its British, European, and world contexts. An annotated bibliography provides a guide thr... more »ough a vast minefield of secondary literture.
`Review from previous edition a very important contribution to the series' Roger Hainsworth, The Adelaide Review
`Dr Hoppit explores fears and traumas incisively and expertly and makes it clearer than it perhaps has ever been made before why the positive developments prevailed and the worse fears ebbed away' Roger Hainsworth, The Adelaide Review
`All students of this significant period will be in his debt for decades to come. Had it been put in my hands when I was studying this period as an undergraduate I would have gnawed on it like a famished wolf.' Roger Hainsworth, The Adelaide Review« less