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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2009
      29 September 1977
      ISBN:
      9780511522635
      9780521386562
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522635
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.358kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    Subjects:
    Politics: General Interest, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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    The period from 1680 to about 1720 was one of the most complex and difficult in the history of British politics, to contemporaries as well as to posterity. The parameters of political obligation were decisively shifted by the Revolution of 1688; statesmen and politicians had now to accustom themselves to the novelty of a parliament in session every year; Britain was almost continuously engaged in the most ambitious and expensive wars in her history to date; political parties were slow to form, and of doubtful repute when they did. Professor Kenyon's Ford Lectures, delivered in Oxford in 1976 and now published as a paperback for the first time, remain a standard account of the period. For this reissue, Professor Kenyon has written a new preface which discusses the book in the light of recent historiography.

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