British politics in the age of Holmes: Geoffrey Holmes's ‘British politics in the age of anne’ 40 years on

When Geoffrey Holmes published British Politics in the Age of Anne in 1967 itwas seen as a masterpiece of historical research and writing and quickly became the accepted interpretation of the politics of the early eighteenth century, displacing the previous one based on the methodology pioneered by Sir Lewis Namier. In 1987 a revised edition was published, and 20 years on from that a distinguished group of historian have come together to produced the articles inthis volume looking at the various aspects of the book and assessing how Holmess work has been taken up and developed in the various fields covered by him in British Politics and in some of his later writings. The present volume alsotakes some topics which Holmess only touched upon, such as gender, jacobite and urban history, to see how his influence has been felt in these fields.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9334-4
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 22/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés