The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire - 9781783274499

The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its EmpireAuthor(s): Brent S. Sirota, Allan Macinnes, Abigail L. Swingen, Allan Macinnes, Amy Watson, Brent S. Sirota, Christopher Dudley, Daniel Szechi, Esther Mijers, James J. Caudle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783274499, 978-1783274499\nSynopsis\nA reassessment of the impact of the Hanoverian succession.\n\nWas 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 [tel]? Many contemporaries and later historians thought so, explainingthe 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 straightforwardcontinuity between [tel] and 1714. Emphasizing the plurality of post-Revolutionary developments, in