Reviews

"The crowning achievement of this new school (of late 17th- and early 18th-Century historians), and the only work of political history of this century which can stand alongside Namier's Structure of Politics." --A.P. Kenyon "A quite outstanding achievement, panoramic, secure, clear and brilliantly organised." --J.S. Morrill "Not the least distinguished of the achievements is that he has woven a formidable amount of material into a rich texture with a pattern simple enough for the most general reader to appreciate. With the publication of this guide students of politics in the early eighteenth century need never lose their way again." --W.A. Speck