• Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to the eighteenth-century Britain
• Highly acclaimed text, first published in the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
• Revised and updated for this edition
• Indispensable for students and general readers

 
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.