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Peace and War: Politics and Culture from the Treaty of Utrecht to the Seven Years’ War Peace and War: Politics and Culture from the Treaty of Utrecht to the Seven Years’ War
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Protestant Peace and Protestant War Protestant Peace and Protestant War
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Jeremiads in Times of War Jeremiads in Times of War
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The Scottish Enlightenment and Martial Culture The Scottish Enlightenment and Martial Culture
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The Mid-Century Moment and the Politics of Despair The Mid-Century Moment and the Politics of Despair
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Notes Notes
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Further Reading Further Reading
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37 Religion and Politics in the Seven Years’ War
Get accessBrian Young is a professor of intellectual history at the University of Oxford and the Charles Stuart Student and Tutor in Modern History at Christ Church.
Richard Whatmore is a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews.
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Published:18 July 2024
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Abstract
Never did a more successful war lead to so much crisis and national malaise as was felt in Britain during and after the Seven Years’ War. Britain’s status as a free state was challenged by developments in commerce, with concerns that luxury was spreading selfishness and effeminacy to the point of military impotence. Corruption in politics and especially at Court was expected to overturn liberty, as Montesquieu had prophesied. But all the ills of Britain were seen through a theological lens, and this chapter underlines the extent to which English and Scottish divines, Episcopalians and Presbyterians, saw contemporary crisis as rooted in fanaticism and enthusiasm, the product of Jacobitism and Popery. Even David Hume, arch-skeptic that he was, employed religious language to understand the decline of Britain and its imminent demise, despite short-lived victory at war.
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