Title: Dismembering the Body Politic
First published: 1998
Description: 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 Wars: 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 cycles 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.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Political culture, Central-local government relations, Municipal corporations, Boroughs, Local government, great britain, Great britain, politics and government, 1603-1714, Great britain, politics and government, 18th century, Local government, Lokaal bestuur, Overheidsbeleid, Lokale politiek, Stadt, Politischer Konflikt, Gerichtsbarkeit, Parteipolitik, Stadtverwaltung
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1714-1760, 1603-1714
LC classification: JN191 .H34 1998