Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

By Bob Harris

Harris presents a new picture of political life in mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Drawing on a great deal of original material, the book argues that British politics and political culture in that period have often been poorly understood through overemphasis on "stability." Using a thematic approach, it clearly reconstructs a political world in which vital issues continued to exercise the minds and emotions of those who made up the contemporary "political nation," a group that included far more than a handful of politicians who competed for national office.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199246939
• ISBN13: 9780199246939
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.5"