The idea of the long eighteenth century (1660-1832) as a period in which religious and political dissent were regarded as antecedents of the Enlightenment has r

The idea of the long eighteenth century (1660-1832) as a period in which religious and political dissent were regarded as antecedents of the Enlightenment has r

This book creates a new framework for the political and intellectual relations between the British Isles and America in a momentous period which witnessed the f

An extensively revised edition of a classic of modern historiography.