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In Defiance of Oligarchy

The Tory Party 1714-60

In Defiance of Oligarchy( )
Author: Colley, Linda
ISBN:978-0-511-86715-6
Publication Date:Apr 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Ebook
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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...
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Colley, Linda (Author)
Linda Colley was professor of history at yale University from 1982-1997 when she accepted an appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has just accepted a position as professor of history at Princeton which will begin in the Fall of 2003.




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