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In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-60 (Cambridge Pa...
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Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521313112
ISBN-13
9780521313117
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384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
In Defiance of Oligarchy : the Tory Party 1714-60
Subject
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
1985
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Textbook
Author
Linda Colley
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History
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Trade Paperback

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9 in
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'Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism...this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.'J. P. Kenyon, The Observer, 'her book brilliantly rehabilitates the eighteenth-century Tory Party... one of the most important books on eighteenth-century politics to appear in this generation.' John Brewer, London Review of Books, 'her book brilliantly rehabilitates the eighteenth-century Tory Party... one of the most important books on eighteenth-century politics to appear in this generation.'John Brewer, London Review of Books, 'Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism¿this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.¿ J. P. Kenyon, The Observer, 'Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism…this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.' J. P. Kenyon, The Observer, 'Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism…this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.'J. P. Kenyon, The Observer, 'her book brilliantly rehabilitates the eighteenth-century Tory Party… one of the most important books on eighteenth-century politics to appear in this generation.'John Brewer, London Review of Books, 'Puts in doubt just about every previous assumption we have made about eighteenth-century Toryism...this is a powerfully argued book, deeply based in original research, and elegantly and incisively written.' J. P. Kenyon, The Observer, 'her book brilliantly rehabilitates the eighteenth-century Tory Party… one of the most important books on eighteenth-century politics to appear in this generation.' John Brewer, London Review of Books
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Table Of Content
Preface; Part I. The Problem of Tory Survival: 1. The nature of the challenge; 2. The Tory response to proscription; Part II. The Ingredients of Tory Survival: 3. The Tory Party in Parliament; 4. The content of toryism; 5. The Tory Party in the constituencies; 6. The fabric of the Tory appeal; Part III. Single-Party Government Assailed: 7. A dark hole with blind guides: 1714-24; 8. The twisted threads of party: 1725-41; 9. Broad-bottom schemes and princely alliances: 1742-53; 10. Acceptance and dispersal? 1754 and onwards; Conclusion; Appendix; Manuscript sources; Notes; Index.
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In English history the years between 1714 and 1760 are peculiar in two ways. They have received only scant attention from historians, and they witnessed the exclusion of the tory sector of the nation's landed elite from all central as well as from prime local offices. In this book Linda Colley explores the fate of the tory party which has dominated both Parliament and the constituencies throughout of the reigns of William III and Anne. She refutes any simple identification of the party with cryto-Jacobitism, and explains both the ideological, electoral, and organisational factors which enabled it to survive under the early Hanoverians, and the circumstances which prevented it from regaining total or limited access to the political centre. Like canaries down a mine, the proscribed tories are also used to gauge the atmosphere of their high-and low-political environment. By examining the tory party's persistent if unavailing parliamentary lobbies and opinion, Dr Colley brings into question many of the current orthodoxies about England's political stability under George I and George II, and casts doubt on the repidity and novelty of political and social developments thereafter., In this book Linda Colley explores the fate of the tory party which has dominated both Parliament and the constituencies throughout of the reigns of William III and Anne.
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  • by rbb1787
    16 Oct, 2022

    Brilliant monograph -- a landmark of 18th century British political history.

    Brilliant, energetic, landmark study of the BritishTory party in Parliament from the death of Queen Anne in 1714 to the death of King George II in 1760. A modern classic of historical writing and analysi8s.

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