Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire

Wolffe, John, The Catholic Historical Review

Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire. By David Hempton. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. xii, 191. $49.95 hardback; $16.95 paperback.)

This book is based on the Cadbury lectures which the author gave at the University of Birmingham in 1993, and provides a consistently incisive and penetrating survey of an historical territory fully as complex and varied as the geography of the islands with which it is concerned. Hempton shows himself the master of an extensive range of scholarship, given additional depth by insights from his own considerable primary research. He ably challenges the simplistic …

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Publication information: Article title: Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire. Contributors: Wolffe, John - Author. Journal title: The Catholic Historical Review. Volume: 84. Issue: 4 Publication date: October 1998. Page number: 781+. © 2003 The Catholic University of America Press. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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