Dismembering the Body Politic

Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650–1730

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av Paul D. Halliday, Paul D. (University of Virginia) Halliday, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy

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This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. A new kind of politics emerged out of England's Civil War: partisan politics. This happened first in the corporations governing the towns, and not at Parliament as is usually argued. Based on an examination of the records of scores of corporations, this book explains how war unleashed a cycle of purge and counter-purge which continued for decades. It also explains how a society that feared a system of politics based on division found the means to absorb it peacefully. As conflict sharpened in communities everywhere, local competitors turned to the court of King's Bench to resolve their differences. In doing so, they prompted the court to develop a new body of law that protected local governments from the divisive impulses within them.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-11-13
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt800 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Antal sidor416
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521526043

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Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Corporate Ideal and Partisan Reality: 1. The paradox of partisan politics; 2. 'The best of politics'; 3. From purge to purge: Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration in the corporations; 4. Partisan politics, 1663–1682; Part II. The King and his Corporations, 1660–1688: 5. The corporations and their charters, 1660–1682; 6. Quo warranto and the King's corporations, 1682–1685; 7. Revolution in the corporations, 1685–1688; Part III. Partisan Conflict and the Law in a Dynamic Society: 8. The legacy of the 1680s; 9. Partisan conflict and political stability, 1702–1727; 10. 1660, 1688, 1727, and beyond; Select bibliography; Index.

"Paul D. Halliday's book offers a new insight into the electoral politics of corporate English towns in the unstable decades of the English monarchy between the execution of King Charles I and the confirmation of the Hanoverian succession. The importance of his work lies in the fact that corporate towns elected most of the members of parliament in these decades. My estimate is that Halliday's work needs to be read by political historians of England. Those interested in parliament and party, and urban historians, should buy it...a well-planned and well-argued book. It is easy, even compelling to read. It places more emphasis on local initiatives in politics, and if the approach is accepted, then Charles II and James II emerge as lesser demons in corporation history than has hitherto been claimed." The Journal of Modern History