Professor Gunn presents a fresh, revealing picture of the public mind in Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the First Reform Act, showing how British people of the eighteenth century came to a new understanding of politics. Departing form the usual approach based upon weighty treatises by a few prominent commentators, he employs a wide range of documents: newspapers, magazines, parliamentary debates, sermons, pamphlets, judicial records, and private correspondence. He examines topics that have generally escaped even specialist notice and takes up questions long regarded as settled, casting a new and different light on them.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 320.941
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- 19
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0773510060 9780773564015
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- JA84.G7
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- G857 1983eb
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- 1 electronic text (331 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 14
- I: Parliament and the Caesars: Legal Tyranny in the Political Rhetoric of Eighteenth-Century England 20
- II: The Fourth Estate: The Language of Political Innovation 56
- III: Mandeville: Poverty, Luxury, and the Whig Theory of Government 109
- IV: The Spectre at the Feast: The Persistence of High-Tory Ideas 133
- 1. Constitutional Thought after the Revolution: 1688–1714 135
- 2. Survival 154
- 3. Renewal: 1760–1800 177
- V: David Williams: Organicism and Reform 207
- VI: A Measure of Liberty 242
- VII: Public Spirit to Public Opinion 273
- Index 330
- A 330
- B 330
- C 331
- D 333
- E 333
- F 334
- G 334
- H 335
- I 336
- J 336
- K 336
- L 337
- M 337
- N 338
- O 338
- P 339
- Q 340
- R 340
- S 341
- T 342
- U 343
- V 343
- W 343
- Y 344
