A general graduate-level introduction to the political and social history of Britain from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution. Focuses on: Whig justification for revolution, "Rage of Party," Walpolean oligarchy and its "country" critics, agricultural revolution, urbanization, growth of the "middling sort," plebeian culture and the limits of hegemony, growth of national identity and the "fiscal-military" state, social context of the criminal law, Wilkite and American crises.