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Whiggery Assailed and Triumphant: Popular Radicalisms in Hanoverian England - Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electorate of Hanoverian England, 1734–1832. By Frank O'Gorman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. 464. $84.00. - Religion, Revolution, and English Radicalism: Nonconformity in Eighteenth-Century Politics and Society. By James Bradley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 470. $59.95. - Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt. By Nicholas Rogers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. 456. $79.00. - Jacobitism and the English People, 1688–1788. By Paul Monod. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 412. $22.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Kathleen Wilson*
Affiliation:
State University of New Yorkat Stony Brook

Abstract

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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1995

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References

1 Such as the move to recover the social and cultural contexts of politics inaugurated by Edward Thompson and John Brewer: see Thompson, Edward, “Patrician Society, Plebeian Culture,” Journal of Social History 7 (1974): 382405CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Eighteenth Century English Society: Class-Struggle without Class?Social History 3 (1978): 133–65CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act (New York: Pantheon, 1977)Google Scholar; Brewer, John, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Commercialization and Politics,” in The Birth of a Consumer Society, ed. Brewer, John, McKendrick, Neil, and Plumb, J. H. (London, 1982), pp. 197262Google Scholar.

2 Since the seminal studies of Lincoln, Anthony, Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent, 1763–1800 (Cambridge, 1983)Google Scholar; Robbins, Caroline, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman (Cambridge, Mass., 1959)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Watts, Michael, The Dissenters (Oxford, 1978)Google Scholar.

3 De Krey, Gary, A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party (Oxford, 1985)Google Scholar; for Rogers, see below.

4 As noted by Speck, W. A., Tory and Whig: The Struggle in the Constituencies (London, 1970), pp. 2425Google Scholar, and confirmed by De Krey in A Fractured Society, chaps. 3 and 4.

5 Benjamin, Walter, Illuminations, ed. Arendt, Hannah (New York, 1968), p. 261Google Scholar.