Politics and opinion in crisis: 1678 - 81

Part II explores public opinion in the country as a whole, and argues that propaganda, electioneering, religious conflict and petitions and addresses committed men to organised networks of belief, but also ensured a struggle about the representation of the will of the people

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Beteilige Person: Knights, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 1994
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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Zusammenfassung:Part II explores public opinion in the country as a whole, and argues that propaganda, electioneering, religious conflict and petitions and addresses committed men to organised networks of belief, but also ensured a struggle about the representation of the will of the people
Abstract:The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession crisis of the years 1678 to 1681 are the context for this new study. It asks two key questions: Was there an exclusion crisis? and, Did these years witness the birth of modern political parties? Through a detailed analysis of Parliament, the court and the country, the author argues that the unrest was not simply due to a centrally organised party machine based around the single issue of exclusion, but was a broad-based controversy about the succession, fears of popery and arbitrary government which produced ideological polarisation and political sophistication. Part I examines central politics to explore the succession crisis within the context of the court and an emergent fluid but partisan political structure
Umfang:XV, 424 S. Ill.
ISBN:0521418046