Bob Harris

Politics and the Nation

Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book which interprets its subject broadly, and which seeks to tell the stories of politics in this period through the words and projects, hopes and fears, of contemporaries. It also represents an important contribution to the difficult, but important, project of writing the history of the British Isles. Development in Scotland and Ireland are given careful attention along with those of England.

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Harris presents a new picture of political life in mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a great deal of original material, the book argues that British politics and political culture in that period have often been poorly understood through overemphasis on "stability." Using a thematic approach, it clearly reconstructs a political world in which vital issues continued to exercise the minds and emotions of those who made up the contemporary "political nation," a group that included far more than a handful of politicians who competed for national office.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780199246939
• ISBN-10: 0199246939
• Artikelnr.: 21727482

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: National Politics in mid 18th Century Britain
2: Virtue and Liberty:the mid century 'County interest'
3: Foreign Affairs
4: Scotland: Expunging the Memory of the '45
5: Ireland
6: Trade and National Interest
7: Reviving the Nation's Morals
8: Reformation of Manners