Cassell's Companion to Eighteenth-century Britain

Download or read book Cassell's Companion to Eighteenth-century Britain written by Stephen Brumwell and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2001 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassell's Companion to 18th-Century Britain covers the period from the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. Its 1000+ entries not only deal with key political, diplomatic and military events but also provide in-depth coverage of economic, social and cultural matters. Thus the user can check key facts about the careers of politicians Walpole and Charles James Fox, as well as refer to an in-depth article on the 18th-century electoral system as a whole, or find out who the great architects were of the period.