In Defiance of Oligarchy
Subtitle: The Tory Party 1714-60 (Cambridge Paperback Library)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 27, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780521313117
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; History - General History; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; Political Process - Political Parties
First sentence: As an explanation of why those tories who were excluded from political power between 1715 and 1760 have been deprived of scholarly attention since Keith Feiling's unsatisfactory 1938 study, The Second Tory Party, Yeats' poetry is more illuminating than Butterfield's prose.