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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464622303321

Autore

Holmes Geoffrey

Titolo

British Politics in the Age of Anne [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 1987

ISBN

0-8264-4619-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (623 p.)

Disciplina

941.069

Soggetti

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1702-1714

Great Britain -- Politics and government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITION; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; A NOTE ON DATES AND QUOTATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: The Character of Politics; 1 Tory and Whig; 2 The Substance of Conflict: Old Issues and New; 3 The Substance of Conflict: Principles and Power; 4 The ""Country"" Tradition; 5 The Clash of Interests; PART TWO: The Working of Politics; 6 The Managers, the Queen, and the Royal Closet; 7 Parliament and the Parties: The Structure of the Whig Party; 8 The Structure of the Tory Party; 9 The Parties in Action: Direction and Organisation

10 The Parties in Action: Power-Groups and Pressure-Groups11 The Court and the Parties in the House of Commons; 12 The Court and the Parties in the House of Lords; Conclusion; APPENDICES; A. Party Allegiance in the House of Lords, 1701-14; B. The Queen''s Servants in the House of Lords, February 1714; C. Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, as ""Prime Minister""; LIST OF MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; A GUIDE TO POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY, 1702-14; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

British Politics in the Age of Anne is a book that anyone with an  interest in the period will wish to possess: completely authoritative,  yet as attractive to the student and the general reader as to the  specialist. The author has both revised the text and written a  substantial new introduction to this edition. Geoffrey Holmes reveals  how little the



structure and contents of politics under Queen Anne had  in common with the connexion-ridden scene of the mid-18th century,  as portrayed by Namier. He depicts a period of fierce and genuine party  conflict, in which society at many levels was