The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9781108841634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 350 str.

Max Skjönsberg

Opis

Offers a fundamental re-evaluation of the origins and importance of the idea of 'party' in British politics and political thought.

Recenzje

'… a reliable history of ideas about party in eighteenth-century Britain.' William Selinger, Eighteenth-Century Studies

Spis treści

Introduction. Party in history and politics; 1. Background, contexts, and discourses; 2. Rapin on the origins and nature of party division in Britain; 3. Bolingbroke's country party opposition platform; 4. David Hume's early essays on party politics; 5. Faction detected? Pulteney, Perceval, and the Tories; 6. Hume on the parties' speculative systems of thought; 7. Hume and the history of party in England; 8. Political transformations during the Seven Years' War: Hume and Burke; 9. 'Not men, but measures': John Brown on free government without faction; 10. Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs; 11. Burke's thoughts on the cause of the present discontents; 12. Burke and his party in the age of revolution; 13. Burke and the Scottish enlightenment; Conclusion.