ABSTRACT
D. Jarrett, Britain, 1688-1815 (Longman, 1965) provides a good one-volume introduction, embodying the fruits of recent scholarship, stressing political and parliamentary history. Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth-century England. [1714-83] (Longman, 1962) and A. Briggs, The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (Longman, 1959) are excellent surveys. On a fuller scale arc the volumes in the Oxford History of England: A. F. Basil Williams, The Whig Supremacy, 1714-60 (Oxf., 2nd edn 1962) and J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760-1815 (Oxf., 1960). For a full general narrative W. E. H. Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century (Longman, 8 vols, 1878-90) is still valuable, particularly for the author's wide knowledge of contemporary printed material and balanced judgements of men and events. D. B. Horn, Great Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth Century (Oxf., 1967) is standard, analysing separately Britain's relations with each country or area, with full section bibliographies. Elizabeth F. Malcolm Smith, British Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century (Williams, 1937) is a rather simplified and compressed account of British foreign relations up to 1789. For the latter part of the period there is fuller treatment in the Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, vol. 1,1783-1815, ed. A. W. Ward and G. P. Gooch (Camb., 1922). The European background is covered in three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History: vol. 7, The Old Régime, 1713-63, ed. Jean O. Lindsay (Camb., 1957); vol. 8, The American and French Revolutions, 1763-93, ed. A. Goodwin (Camb., 1965); and vol. 9, War and Peace in an Age of Upheaval, 1793-1830, ed. C. W. Crawley (Camb., 1965).
