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Autore |
Holmes Geoffrey |
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Titolo |
British Politics in the Age of Anne [[electronic resource]] |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 1987 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02438-8 |
9786612024382 |
0-8264-3407-X |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (623 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Great Britain -- History |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1702-1714 |
Regions & Countries - Europe |
History & Archaeology |
Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITION; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; A NOTE ON DATES AND QUOTATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: The Character of Politics; PART TWO: The Working of Politics; APPENDICES; LIST OF MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; A GUIDE TO POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY, 1702-14; NOTES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""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-eighteenth century, as portrayed by Namier. He depicts a period of fierce and genuine party conflict, in which society at many levels wa |
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