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... tion- these are the terms in which historians frequently try to capture the spirit of the times . Of course , there is also another school of historiography , the one which subsumes conditions of the later eighteenth century under the ...
... tion- these are the terms in which historians frequently try to capture the spirit of the times . Of course , there is also another school of historiography , the one which subsumes conditions of the later eighteenth century under the ...
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... tion , and it carried them along in the Reform Bill debates . Many cabinet ministers were the most reluctant of reformers , but they justified their votes by reference to prescription . Grey asserted that reform must come because it was ...
... tion , and it carried them along in the Reform Bill debates . Many cabinet ministers were the most reluctant of reformers , but they justified their votes by reference to prescription . Grey asserted that reform must come because it was ...
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... tion of universal military service in Prussia , attention turned once again to British models , with Hardenberg even going so far as to request details from the Prussian representative in London : ' Our government needs exact infor ...
... tion of universal military service in Prussia , attention turned once again to British models , with Hardenberg even going so far as to request details from the Prussian representative in London : ' Our government needs exact infor ...
Contents
The Whigs the People and Reform | 25 |
Changing the Law in Germany in the Ancien Régime | 45 |
Notes on Contributors vii | |
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