Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and Its Empire

<p>Was the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty of Brunswick to the throne of Britain and its empire in 1714 merely the final act in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89? Many contemporaries and later historians thought so explaining the succession in the same terms as the earlier revolution - deliverance from the national perils of 'popery and arbitrary government'. By contrast this book argues that the picture is much more complicated than straightforward continuity between 1688-89 and 1714. Emphasizing the plurality of post-Revolutionary developments it explores early eighteenth-century Britain in light of the social political economic religious and cultural transformations inaugurated by the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-1689 and its ensuing settlements in church state and empire. The revolution of 1688-89 was much more transformative and convulsive than is often assumed; and the book shows that although the Hanoverian Succession did embody a clear-cut reaffirmation of the core elements of the Revolution settlement - anti-Jacobitism and anti-popery - its impact on various post-Revolutionary developments in Church state Union intellectual culture international relations political economy and empire is decidedly less clear.<br /><br />BRENT S. SIROTA is Associate Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University.<br /><br />ALLAN I. MACINNES is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde.<br /><br />CONTRIBUTORS: James Caudle Megan Lindsay Cherry Christopher Dudley Robert I. Frost Allan I. Macinnes Esther Mijers Steve Pincus Brent S. Sirota Abigail L. Swingen Daniel Szechi Amy Watson</p>