Strong Government
Linda Colley, 7 December 1989
The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1788
by John Brewer.
Unwin Hyman, 289 pp., £28, April 1989,0 04 445292 6 Show More
by John Brewer.
Unwin Hyman, 289 pp., £28, April 1989,
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution
by John Gascoigne.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £32.50, June 1989,0 521 35139 1 Show More
by John Gascoigne.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £32.50, June 1989,
Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World
by C.A. Bayly.
Longman, 295 pp., £16.95, June 1989,0 582 04287 9 Show More
by C.A. Bayly.
Longman, 295 pp., £16.95, June 1989,
“... this claim. No academic institution should be dismissed that gave rise, as Cambridge did, to Sir Isaac Newton. But Newton’s legacy proved an ambiguous one. It encouraged in Cambridge an obsessive concentration on mathematics which, together with its exclusion of Dissenters, increasingly divorced the university from ... ”