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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 February 2010
      25 February 1982
      ISBN:
      9780511560460
      9780521313117
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560460
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      Weight & Pages:
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      (227 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.568kg, 384 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics: General Interest, British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations
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    In English history the years between 1714 and 1760 are peculiar in two ways. They have received only scant attention from historians, and they witnessed the exclusion of the tory sector of the nation's landed elite from all central as well as from prime local offices. In this book Linda Colley explores the fate of the tory party which has dominated both Parliament and the constituencies throughout of the reigns of William III and Anne. She refutes any simple identification of the party with cryto-Jacobitism, and explains both the ideological, electoral, and organisational factors which enabled it to survive under the early Hanoverians, and the circumstances which prevented it from regaining total or limited access to the political centre. Like canaries down a mine, the proscribed tories are also used to gauge the atmosphere of their high-and low-political environment. By examining the tory party's persistent if unavailing parliamentary lobbies and opinion, Dr Colley brings into question many of the current orthodoxies about England's political stability under George I and George II, and casts doubt on the repidity and novelty of political and social developments thereafter.

    Reviews

    ‘her book brilliantly rehabilitates the eighteenth-century Tory Party… one of the most important books on eighteenth-century politics to appear in this generation.’

    John Brewer Source: London Review of Books

    ‘Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism…this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.’

    J. P. Kenyon Source: The Observer

    ‘A book of admirable erudition and commanding stature …’

    Geoffrey Holmes Source: The Historical Journal

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