Notes on elements of the text
List of general thanksgiving days
Introduction
Sermons and thanksgiving-day sermons in the long eighteenth century
Thanksgiving-day sermons - purposes and meanings
'The Palladium of our Safety' - Providence and Britain
Political theory and principles
'This Carping Age' - the politics of unity and discord
War
Costs of war and consequences of peace
Commerce and Empire
Anglicanism, dissent, anti-Catholicism, and infidelity
Others and Britons
Conclusion
Appendix A: Preachers' and sermon details
Appendix B: Denominational breakdown of thanksgiving-day-preachers
Appendix C: Main scriptural texts used for thanksgiving-day sermons
Bibliography of primary sources: Thanksgiving-day sermons - by date preached
Bibliography of secondary sources

WARREN JOHNSTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English and History at Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Revelation Restored: The Apocalypse in Later Seventeenth Century England (Boydell Press, 2011).