Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture

ISBN-13: 9780199258345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str.

Mark Knights

Opis

In this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675-1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict.

Recenzje

Mark Knights brilliantly shows a new way of considering later-Stuart politics ... a book of exceptional depth and originality which all historians of the period ought to explore.

O autorze

Mark Knights is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich