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The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems

The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems

Clark, J. C. D.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics

General European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceBritish History

ISBN10: 0521525969
ISBN13: 9780521525961
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 18 2002
Pages: 636
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.48 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
It is often assumed that Sir Lewis Namier and Sir Herbert Butterfield demolished the 'Whig interpretation of history'. In fact, much was allowed to remain standing by their failure to offer a new synthesis of English party politics. In this book Dr Clark provides the key component for such a new synthesis by a detailed exposition of the crisis of the 1750s, which was instrumental in the destruction of the party system and the emergence of new practices in the multi-factional world. The Court v. Country analysis of the politics of c. 1714-1760, still widely current, is refuted by a demonstration of the survival of the Whig and Tory parties of Queen Anne's reign until the 1750s; the long debate about George III and the constitution is set in a new perspective; and major new insights are offered into the nature of party and party politics.

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