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Chapter 8 - Political Transformations during the Seven Years’ War: Hume and Burke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2021

Max Skjönsberg
Max Skjönsberg
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University of Liverpool
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This chapter is partly contextual, considering the political changes ushered in by the unexpected death of Henry Pelham in 1754, and partly textual, as it deals with Hume’s last essay on party (‘Of the Coalition of Parties’, 1758) and Edmund Burke’s first, unpublished essay on party (1757). Both essays were commentaries on high politics at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War, as well as wider reflections on the meaning of partisanship and its problems for historical writing, the place of party in a constitutional system, and, in the case of Burke, the distinction between party and faction.

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David HumeEdmund BurkeSeven Years’WarWilliam Pitt the ElderHenry PelhamDuke of NewcastleGeorge II
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The Persistence of Party
Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain
 , pp. 201 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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