Representation and misrepresentation in later Stuart Britain : partisanship and political culture / Mark Knights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knights, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representative government and representation.

History.

Political culture.

Political parties.

Public opinion.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Public opinion--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political parties--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political culture--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Representative government and representation--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 431 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

In this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675-1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-420) and index.

ISBN:

0199258333

OCLC:

57392400

Publisher Number:

9780199258338