Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1689-1720

by J.P. Kenyon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052138656X
• ISBN13: 9780521386562
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"