Negotiating Toleration: Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, 1714-1760

by Nigel Aston

1714 was a revolutionary year for Dissenters across the British Empire. The Hanoverian Succession upended a political and religious order antagonistic to Protestant non-conformity and replaced it with a regime that was, ostensibly, sympathetic to the Whig interest. The death of Queen Anne and the dawn of Hanoverian Rule presented Dissenters with fresh opportunities and new challenges as they worked to negotiate and legitimize afresh their place in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198804229
• ISBN13: 9780198804222
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"