Tory Phylogeny
John Brewer, 2 December 1982
In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760
by Linda Colley.
Cambridge, 383 pp., £25, February 1982,0 521 23982 6 Show More
by Linda Colley.
Cambridge, 383 pp., £25, February 1982,
Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems
by J.C.D. Clark.
Cambridge, 640 pp., £37.50, May 1982,0 521 23830 7 Show More
by J.C.D. Clark.
Cambridge, 640 pp., £37.50, May 1982,
“... the way in which historians have developed the interpretation advanced by Colley’s mentor, Sir John Plumb, in his now classic The Growth of Political Stability. Plumb’s book, which brilliantly delineated the change from the political chaos of the 17th to the political order of the 18th century, was such a tour de force that ever since most historians ... ”