Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Book

This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England.England's civil wars in the 1640s broke apart a society which had been used to political consensus. Though all sought unity after the wars ended, a new kind of politics developed---one based on partisan division, arising first in urban communities, not at Parliament. This book explains how war unleashed a long cycle of purge and counter-purge and how society found the means to absorb divisive politics peacefully. Legal changes are explored with reference to the rarely-studied records of King's Bench, to which local competitors turned for help in resolving their differences..Read More

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  • 0521552532
  • 9780521552530
  • Paul D. Halliday
  • 23 July 1998
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 414
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