Author: Clark, J. C. D.
Title: The Dynamics of Change : The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1982). orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xiii,615 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ It is often assumed that Sir Lewis Namier and Sir Herbert Butterfield demolished the 'Whig interpretation of history'. In fact, much was allowed to remain standing by their failure to offer a new synthesis of English party politics. In this book Dr Clark provides the key component for such a new synthesis by a detailed exposition of the crisis of the 1750s, which was instrumental in the destruction of the party system and the emergence of new practices in the multi-factional world. The Court v. Country analysis of the politics of c. 1714-1760, still widely current, is refuted by a demonstration of the survival of the Whig and Tory parties of Queen Anne's reign until the 1750s; the long debate about George III and the constitution is set in a new perspective; and major new insights are offered into the nature of party and party politics"n - Publisher's description.

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