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The Rage of Party

The Rage of Party

Owers, George

Hardcover

British History

Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 1408719096
ISBN13: 9781408719091
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.81 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.41
Language: English
The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.
Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised country for several tumultuous generations.

The Rage of Party traces the thrilling story of how these two parties - one representing the established social forces of squire, church and monarchy; the other the rising forces of financial power and Protestant Dissent - settled the defining debates of the age, culminating in a dramatic fight to the death over peace, piety and the Protestant Succession in the age of Queen Anne. Their bitter disputes over religion, economics and the constitution profoundly influenced many of the forces and institutions that shaped the modern world, ranging from the City of London and the Bank of England to the Union between England and Scotland and the British Empire.

From vicious pamphlet wars and some of history's most corrupt and riotous elections through a revolution, multiple assassination attempts and enough scandals to make even the most louche modern politician blush, this brilliantly researched book shows how a motley crew of rakes, hypocrites, cunning tricksters and scheming clergymen engaged in not only a political confrontation that threatened a second civil war, but a culture war that still finds echoes in 21st-century Britain.

'This is a lucid and exciting account of high and low politics in the crucial years of Whig and Tory battles following the Glorious Revolution, when Great Britain was created, and a new world of money, war and empire dawned. George Owers grippingly recounts the culture wars, paranoia, self-seeking and skulduggery that are both recognisable and strange. Recognizable because we are all still, in our heart of hearts, either Whig or Tory, and we are still grappling with their legacy' - Robert Tombs, author of The English and their History

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