Overview
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.
- | Author: Mark Knights
- | Publisher: OUP Oxford
- | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 448 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0199258333
- | ISBN-13: 9780199258338
