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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2009
Print publication year:
1977
Online ISBN:
9780511522635
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522635
Subjects:
Politics: General Interest, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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The period from 1680 to about 1720 was one of the most complex and difficult in the history of British politics, to contemporaries as well as to posterity. The parameters of political obligation were decisively shifted by the Revolution of 1688; statesmen and politicians had now to accustom themselves to the novelty of a parliament in session every year; Britain was almost continuously engaged in the most ambitious and expensive wars in her history to date; political parties were slow to form, and of doubtful repute when they did. Professor Kenyon's Ford Lectures, delivered in Oxford in 1976 and now published as a paperback for the first time, remain a standard account of the period. For this reissue, Professor Kenyon has written a new preface which discusses the book in the light of recent historiography.

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' … John Kenyon's powerful and ironic Ford lectures, Revolution Principles, a work of great distinction …'.

Source: New Society

'Kenyon's exposition will provide fuel for a score more of political studies, and his conclusion should keep us all busy for the rest of the century.'

Source: The American Historical Review

'The scholarship is impeccable, and the results are an important addition to current knowledge. Essential for any academic library.'

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