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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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