The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century 1688‐1820

How different the books in this series are! This reviewer recently reviewed Peter Lock's The Routledge Companion to the Crusades (RR 2007/401) and was quite struck by the differences in approach in these two books. Whereas, in The Routledge Companion to the Crusades, there is quite a strong emphasis on narrative, text, “the story” and how it has been presented by historians, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century 1688‐1820 has a very different focus. It is primarily a book of facts with little interpretive content. The facts (names, dates, places, statistics) are usefully arranged into...