The Early Parties and Politics in Britain, 1688-1832 (British Studies Series)

by Brian Hill (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $46.45

  There has always been a tendency to view British politics before the 1832 reform act as though the parties in parliament were clumsy, embryo versions of the later Conservatives and Liberals - their every act interpreted as being either as further striving towards modernity or a relapse into more primitive patterns of behaviour.