experiences in their new milieu.51
In Great Britain, meanwhile, the dislocations ofthe industrial revolution
were giving rise to reform impulses that had a strong irnpact on British
politics. The reform movement was essentially a middle-class movement
with both moral and material roots. It was linked with progressive cap-
italism influenced by the market ideas of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of
Nations was published in 1776, and with evangelical religion, which was
prominent
among
the nonestablishment
Protestants,
especially the
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