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In Defiance of Oligarchy - The Tory Party 1714-60 (Paperback, Revised)
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In Defiance of Oligarchy - The Tory Party 1714-60 (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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