Title: Politics, religion, and society in England, 1679-1742 /
Authors: Holmes, Geoffrey S., 1928-
Publisher: Hambledon Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Politics and government; England Church history; England Church history; England Social conditions; England Social conditions
Contents: The electorate and the national will in the first age of party -- The attack on 'the influence of the crown', 1702-16 -- The fall of Harley in 1708 reconsidered (with W. A. Speck) -- The Hamilton affair of 1711-12: a crisis in Anglo-Scottish relations -- Trade, the Scots and the Parliamentary crisis of 1713 (with Clyve Jones) -- Harley, St. John and the death of the Tory party -- Sir Robert Walpole -- Religion and party in late Stuart England -- The Sacheverell Riots: the church and the crown in early-eighteenth-century London -- The achievement of stability: the social context of politics from the 1680s to the age of Walpole (with colloquy, ed. by H. T. Dickinson) -- Gregory King and the social structure of pre-industrial England -- The professions and social change in England, 1680-1730.