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Peers and Parliamentarians versus Jacobites and Jacobins: Eighteenth-Century Stability? - Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England. By John Cannon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 193. $34.50 (cloth). - British Parliamentary Parties, 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act. By Brian W. Hill. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. x + 272. $28.00 (cloth); $9.50 (paper). - Britain in the Age of Walpole. Edited by Jeremy Black. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 260. $27.95 (cloth). - British Radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789–1815. By H. T. Dickinson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. viii + 88. $6.95 (paper).

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Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England. By John Cannon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x + 193. $34.50 (cloth).

British Parliamentary Parties, 1742–1832: From the Fall of Walpole to the First Reform Act. By Brian W. Hill. London: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Pp. x + 272. $28.00 (cloth); $9.50 (paper).

Britain in the Age of Walpole. Edited by Jeremy Black. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. viii + 260. $27.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

John A. Phillips*
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside

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