By Mark Knights
During this unique and illuminating examine, Mark Knights unearths how the political tradition of the eighteenth century grew out of prior developments and strategies. Arguing that the interval 1675-1720 has to be obvious because the moment level of a seventeenth-century revolution that ran on till c.1720, the ebook lines the advance of the general public as an arbiter of politics, the expansion of a countrywide political tradition, the shift in the direction of a consultant society, a trouble of public discourse and credibility, and a political enlightenment rooted in neighborhood and nationwide partisan clash.
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36 F. S. Siebert, Freedom of the Press in England – (Urbana, ); T. Crist,‘Government Control of the Press after the Expiration of the Licensing Act in ’, Publishing History, (), –; R. , (), –. 37 See Ch. . 38 M. Treadwell, ‘Lists of Master Printers: The Size of the London Printing Trade –’, in R. Myers and M. ), Aspects of Printing from (Oxford, ), –. Introduction but that paper warfare was waged and sustained at similarly high or higher levels after .
34 The graph is taken from ESTC web-site. It does not take into account the frequency of editions. For important caveats about such statistics, see D. McKenzie,‘Printing and publishing –: Constraints on the London Book Trades’, in J. Barnard and D. ), The Cambridge History of the Book. Volume IV – (Cambridge, ). 35 The remarkable quantity of print was noticed at the time (M. ] the quantity remains reasonably consistent for the next half-century, before sharp rises in the second half of the eighteenth century.
For the early eighteenth century, see also K. Wilson, The Sense of the People. Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, – (Oxford, ); N. Rogers, Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt (Oxford, ). For explorations of Scottish and Irish political cultures, see HOP II, i. –; in J. G. Simms, D. W. Hayton and G. ), War and Politics in Ireland – (); D. G. Boyce, R. Eccleshall, and V. ), Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Ireland (Basingstoke, ); and forthcoming studies by Tim Harris and Clare Jackson.
