Books by "John Dickson"
2 books found
A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
by John Burke, Bernard Burke
1849
John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britain's emergence in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, but at the heart of these dramatic changes lay a tension between the nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.