This is a meticulous and scholarly study of the polemical press of the 1740s, and the first substantial investigation of the politics of the Pelham regime for a generation. Robert Harris examines the vigorous and wide-ranging debate in tracts and periodicals about the principal issues of the day--the fall of Walpole, the influence of Hanover, the Forty-Five, and the War of the Austrian Succession. Harris's detailed analysis of the confusing and fragmented politics of the 1740s sheds important light on patterns of change and continuity in the political culture of mid-eighteenth-century English politics. A Patriot Press makes an important contribution to our understanding of political ideology and party strife in the eighteenth century, as well as to our knowledge of the workings of the press.
This is a meticulous and scholarly study of the polemical press of the 1740s, and the first substantial investigation of the politics of the Pelham regime for a generation. Robert Harris examines the vigorous and wide-ranging debate in tracts and periodicals about the principal issues of the day--the fall of Walpole, the influence of Hanover, the Forty-Five, and the War of the Austrian Succession. Harris's detailed analysis of the confusing and fragmented politics of the 1740s sheds important light on patterns of change and continuity in the political culture of mid-eighteenth-century English politics. A Patriot Press makes an important contribution to our understanding of political ideology and party strife in the eighteenth century, as well as to our knowledge of the workings of the press.
Part 1 National politics and the London press: the press, Parliament and popular opinion; patriots, old Whigs, and nominal Tories. Part 2 The London press and the war of the Austrian succession: the press and the conduct of foreign policy; the fall of Walpole and the outbreak of war 1740-1742; the Carteret and Hanover 1742-1744; the broad-bottom ministry and the Jacobite rebellion 1745-1746; war or peace 1746-1748.
`a major contribution to the area ... The chief attraction for
social historians will be the mass of useful material for further
work.'
Social History Society Bulletin
'The thrust of the argument is the more effective for being
deliberately understated, often merely implicit ... A Patriot Press
is a significant study of a neglected decade ... his book is
scholarly and well written, a worthy product of the Paul Langford
research school'
Times Literary Supplement
'This book makes important contributions to the study of
mid-eighteenth-century England ... It is not the least of the many
virtues of this book that it should serve to stimulate further
argument and research on this topic.'
P.A. Luff, Wellington College, Parliamentary History, 13,3
(1994)
'fine book...a detailed case study of the press in the hitherto
neglected decade of the 1740s... this lucid and well constructed
book is a sound and sensible study which will stand as an important
corrective to some of the wilder claims made by revisionists in
recent years about the nature and conduct of eighteenth-century
politics.
H. V. Bowen, Early Modern History
`this is an interesting and useful book...and will contribute to
the continuing debate about the relationship of print and politics
in the eighteenth century.'
British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies
`It is in handling the complex relationship between the press,
Patriot opposition groups and the unfolding military and diplomatic
scene in Europe that the author makes his most confident and
telling contributions.'
EHR
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