Book focuses on what he terms the 'Seventy Years War', an almost-continuous series of conflicts between Britain and (mostly) France, which started with the shambolic response to the Jacobite rebellion and culminated in the triumph of Waterloo, paving the way for a century of imperial dominance under the Pax Britannica … Given the focus on war, this is necessarily an international account of British history … New book makes a striking claim for the continued relevance of Georgian Britain.

Matthew McCormack, The Journal of the Historical Association

The prose is clear and readable, the analysis is enlivened with well-chosen examples, and Page offers much helpful contextual material … The book will be valuable to researchers and teachers who will find here a scholarly, up-to-date introduction to the “war and society” theme in eighteenth-century British history.

John Shovlin, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 55 (1)