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Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650 1730

Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650 1730

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

AnthropologyGeneral LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0521526043
ISBN13: 9780521526043
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 that 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 court records of King's Bench, to which local competitors turned for help in resolving their differences.

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