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Book Notes These are Professor Plumb’s Ford Lectures a t Oxford. Plumb seeks to explain how, after a civil war and a glorious revolution, England achieved political stability. He finds the reasons for this in the growth of a parliamentary electorate, of an oligarchy and of the executive. But his chief reason is that stability came through the creation of a one-party system in which Sir Robert Walpole’s Whigs eliminated the Tory party as a serious political force largely because it could be identified with Jacobitism and therefore with treason. Plumb is the heir to Namier’s techniques in making his analysis, but he is much more sensitive t o ideas and to religion than was Namier. He has produced a n original and well-rounded book in very readable prose. HISTORICAL TABLES 58BC-AD 261. $1.90. millan, 1966. Pp.x 1965. By S. H. Steinberg. Eighth edition, London, Mac- A new edition of a useful handbook, arranged in parallel columns by areas and by such topics as ecclesiastical history, constitutional and economic history and cultural life. T H E YEAR BOOK O F WORLD AFFAIRS 1966. London Institute of World Affairs, 1966. Pp. xvii 408. $11.00. Prefaced by a bibliography, this book consists http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0004-9522
eISSN
1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8497.1967.tb01293.x
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These are Professor Plumb’s Ford Lectures a t Oxford. Plumb seeks to explain how, after a civil war and a glorious revolution, England achieved political stability. He finds the reasons for this in the growth of a parliamentary electorate, of an oligarchy and of the executive. But his chief reason is that stability came through the creation of a one-party system in which Sir Robert Walpole’s Whigs eliminated the Tory party as a serious political force largely because it could be identified with Jacobitism and therefore with treason. Plumb is the heir to Namier’s techniques in making his analysis, but he is much more sensitive t o ideas and to religion than was Namier. He has produced a n original and well-rounded book in very readable prose. HISTORICAL TABLES 58BC-AD 261. $1.90. millan, 1966. Pp.x 1965. By S. H. Steinberg. Eighth edition, London, Mac- A new edition of a useful handbook, arranged in parallel columns by areas and by such topics as ecclesiastical history, constitutional and economic history and cultural life. T H E YEAR BOOK O F WORLD AFFAIRS 1966. London Institute of World Affairs, 1966. Pp. xvii 408. $11.00. Prefaced by a bibliography, this book consists

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Published: Dec 1, 1967

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