In this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675-1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on until c.1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a crisis of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in local and national partisan conflict.
| ISBN | 9780199258338 |
| Autor(a) | Knights, Mark |
| Editora | Oup Oxford |
| Ano de edição | 2005 |
| Páginas | 448 |
| Acabamento | Capa Dura |