New monograph on the 'persistence of party' in eighteenth-century Britain
This week, the monograph 'The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain' by Dr Max Skjönsberg, will be published in Cambridge University Press’s prestigious ‘Ideas in Context’ series.
Dr Skjönsberg said:
"While we take party for granted – for us politics simply is party politics – it was not taken for granted by women and men in the eighteenth century.
At that time, the question of whether party division was beneficial or harmful to political life, dominated political discourse.
This book contextualises the political writings on party in the period, with a focus on thinkers such as Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, Bolingbroke, David Hume, John Brown, and Edmund Burke.
We also encounter understudied political writers such as Thomas Carte, John Perceval and Catharine Macaulay, along with key political actors, including Harley, Walpole, Pulteney, Rockingham, Portland, the Foxes, and the Pitts."
Find out more about the book on the Cambridge University website.