日不落帝国兴衰史-通识读本-典藏版

章节摘录

版权页：   插图：   Elsewhere they were influential if notdominating. The Toryism of the Church was bound to be diluted by thepersistent drip of Whig jobbery, but one of the great seminaries of theChurch, the university of Oxford, remained loyal to the Anglican gentry,and there was sufficient ecclesiastical patronage in the hands of the Toryfamilies to maintain a powerful interest. In substantial cities there werealso promising reservoirs of potential opposition to the regime. InLondon, Bristol, Norwich, and Newcastle, for instance, there was a longtradition of popular participation in politics, and much combustiblematerial for Tory incendiaries. The Walpole system was too widely basedto be considered a narrow oligarchy, but while a significant portion ofthe landed and clerical classes and a large body of middle- and lower-class opinion in the towns opposed it, the stability of the age could bemore apparent than real. The Regime at Risk Naturally enough, the conditions for genuine crisis were created onlywhen the regime itself was divided. By the early 173os Walpole wasfaced by a dangerous alliance of rivals at court. Their opportunity camewith his celebrated attempt to extend the excise system, a projectwhich was financially sound but which awakened the deepest and mostviolent antipathy among those numerous English people who detestednew taxes and feared the expansion of the government's bureaucracy.Only Walpole's readiness to withdraw his scheme in 1733 and the solidsupport of George Ⅱ against his court rivals saved his administration;even so, the general election of 1734 produced a wide-spread reactionagainst him and a severely reduced majority in the House of Commons.

内容概要

保罗·兰福德，牛津大学现代历史学教授（自1996年起），林肯学院现代历史学研究员、导师（自1970年起），艺术和人文科学研究委员会主席（自1998年起）。其著作有《一个彬彬有礼的商业化民族1727—1783》（Oxford，1989；1999再版）和《英国的公众生活与有产阶层1689—1789》（Oxford，1991）等。

书籍目录

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第一章 革命及其反响

第二章 罗宾政府的兴起

第三章 工业和赋闲

第四章 英国中产阶级的形成

第五章 不同政见的斗争

第六章 叛乱和改革

第七章 结束语

年表

历任首相名录1721—1789年

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作者简介

没有轰轰烈烈的革命运动，没有波澜壮阔的变革景象，但18世纪这百年间英国无论在经济发展方面、政治制度与体制方面，还是在文化思维意识方面，均发生了巨大而深刻的变化，这个岛国一步步迈向了世界舞台的中心位置。是无意间开启了神秘的崛起之门？是偶然发现了现代之路？还是其中蕴含了必然？

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