Urban Patronage in Early Modern England
Subtitle: Corporate Boroughs, the Landed Elite, and the Crown, 1580-1640
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780804735872
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Local Government; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Great Britain - General; History & Theory - General; History / Great Britain; Boroughs; England; Municipal corporations; Patronage, Political
Description: "This study of politics in early modern England uses the relations between provincial towns, the landed elite, and the crown to argue that the growth of connections, as much as of conflict, explains the development of early modern government."--BOOK JACKET.