Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political CultureIn this original and illuminating study, Mark Knights reveals how the political culture of the eighteenth century grew out of earlier trends and innovations. Arguing that the period 1675 1720 needs to be seen as the second stage of a seventeenth century revolution that ran on until c. 1720, the book traces the development of the public as an arbiter of politics, the growth of a national political culture, the shift towards a representative society, a