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The Long Parliament of Charles II (Hardcover)
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The Long Parliament of Charles II (Hardcover)
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Charles II's first and most important parliament sat for eighteen
years without a general election, earning itself the sobriquet
"Long." In 1661 this parliament began in eager compliance with the
new king. Gradually disillusioned by Charles's maneuvers, however,
its members came to demand more control of the economy, religion,
and foreign policy, starting a struggle that led to the Exclusion
crisis. This lively book is the first full study of this
Restoration Parliament. Using parliamentary diaries, newsletters,
memoirs, letters from members of parliament, scofflaw pamphlets,
and the king's own speeches, Annabel Patterson describes this
second Long Parliament in an innovative and challenging way,
stressing that how its records were kept and circulated is an
important part of the story. Because the parliamentary debates of
this age were jealously guarded from public knowledge, unofficial
sources of information flourished. Often these are more candid or
colorful than official records. Eighteenth-century historians,
especially if Whiggish, recycled many of them for posterity. The
book, therefore, not only recovers a crucial period of
parliamentary history, one that helps to explain the Glorious
Revolution, it also opens a discussion about historiographical
method.
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