Georgian Monarchy
Subtitle: Politics and Culture, 17141760 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521828765
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; History: World; History; History - General History; Western Continental Europe; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Western Europe - General; 18th century; Great Britain; Monarchy; Politics and culture; Public opinion
First sentence: Perhaps the most revolutionary change that has occurred over the last fifty years in the study of eighteenth-century history has been the shift away from Namierite perceptions of a self-seeking elite and a servile electorate to a more rounded view of the complex motivations that propelled an individual into some form of political engagement, and the role ideas and ideologies played in this process.