The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Party in History and Politics
Chapter 1 Background, Contexts, and Discourses
	Party What?
	Greece and Rome
	Faction and Party
	Comparative Perspective: Sweden
	Why Were Parties Detested?
	Jacobitism
	Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British State
	Sociability and Partisanship
Chapter 2 Rapin on the Origins and Nature of Party Division in Britain
	Introduction
	Contexts of the Dissertation
	The Rise of Party in England
	Party in Rapin\'s Histoire
	Rapin and the Party Structure
	Rapin on Ideology
	Conclusion
Chapter 3 Bolingbroke\'s Country Party Opposition Platform
	The Life and Times of Bolingbroke
	Historian of Faction and Party
	Advocate of the Country Party
	Theorist of Opposition
	The Patriot King
	The Impact of Bolingbroke
Chapter 4 David Hume\'s Early Essays on Party Politics
	Introduction
	Parties in General
	The Parties of Great Britain
	Superstition and Enthusiasm
	Party Politics at the End of the Walpole Era
	Conclusion
Chapter 5 Faction Detected? Pulteney, Perceval, and the Tories
	Pulteney\'s Desertion
	Faction Detected and Leicester House
	Transitory Broad-Bottom
Chapter 6 Hume on the Parties\' Speculative Systems of Thought
	Introduction
	\'Of Passive Obedience\' and \'Of the Original Contract\'
	\'Of the Protestant Succession\'
	Conclusion
Chapter 7 Hume and the History of Party in England
	Background and Contexts
	\'Court\' and \'Country\' under James I
	Charles I and Civil War
	Restoration
	Exclusion, Whig and Tory, and Revolution
	Conclusion
Chapter 8 Political Transformations during the Seven Years\' War: Hume and Burke
	Coalition Politics
	Burke\'s First Essay on Party
Chapter 9 \'Not Men, But Measures\': John Brown on Free Government without Faction
	The Estimate
	The Accession of George III
	Brown and the Faction-Free State
	Conclusion
Chapter 10 Edmund Burke and the Rockingham Whigs
	Introduction
	The Rockingham Whigs Are Formed
	Burke\'s Observations
Chapter 11 Burke\'s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
	Introduction
	The \'Double Cabinet\'
	Reviving Whiggism
	A Note on the Composition of the Present Discontents
	The Party Argument
	Intermediate Powers
	Reception and Impact
	Conclusion
Chapter 12 Burke and His Party in the Age of Revolution
	Burke and the Rockingham Whigs, 1771-1782
	Burke and the Foxite and Portland Whigs, 1782-1791
	An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
	Aristocratic Party?
	Burke and the Portland Whigs after 1791
Chapter 13 Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
	Burke and the Scots
	Smith on Faction
	Unintended Consequences
Conclusion
Bibliography
	Manuscripts
		Aberdeen University Library
		Bodleian, Oxford
		The British Library, London
		East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Brighton
		Edinburgh University Library
		National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
		Royal Archives, Windsor Castle
		Senate House Library, London
		Sheffield City Archives
		Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
		University of Nottingham
	Published Primary Sources
		Debates and Documents
		Diaries, Memoirs, and Correspondence
		Newspapers and Journals
		Pamphlets and Books
	Published Secondary Sources
	Dissertations
Index