Cities divided : politics and religion in English provincial towns, 1660-1722 / John Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, John, 1946 July 5-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal government--England--History--17th century.

Municipal government.

Municipal government--England--History--18th century.

City and town life--England--History--17th century.

City and town life.

City and town life--England--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The religious and political history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. Corrupt, drunken, and sometimes very violent elections indicated how party conflict - exacerbated by religious division - had become a normal part of English life. But strife was not universal - in many towns, despite occasional disorder, government rarely broke down. Focusing on these provincial towns Professor Miller reveals that, although town government was not at all democratic, there was participation, consultation, and negotiation.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; i. The nature of political division; ii. Urban society and government; 1. The Nature of Towns; i. What was a town?; ii. Scenes from urban life; 2. Rulers and Ruled; i. The corporation; ii. Order and disorder; 3. Legitimizing Authority: The Content of Government; i. The civic fabric; ii. Social and moral order; iii. Law and order; iv. Economic order; 4. Legitimizing Authority: Dignity, Conviviality, and Celebration; i. Dignity; ii. Conviviality; iii. Celebration; 5. Getting on with the Neighbours; i. Cathedrals; ii. The universities; iii. The army

iv. The landed elite; 6. Religion; i. Church and Dissent: High Church and Low Church; ii. The fortunes of the Church; iii. The changing face of Dissent; iv. Persecution and toleration; 7. From Restoration to Exclusion; i. The Restoration; ii. Church, Dissent, and the rise of 'party'; iii. Two 'factious' towns; iv. The failure of the Corporation Act; 8. Campaign against the Charters, 1682-1685; i. The making of government policy; ii. The process of surrender; iii. The contents of the new charters; iv. Crushing the Whigs; 9. A Factious City: Bristol in the Reign of Charles II; i. The Restoration

ii. Persecution and precedence iii. Bishop Carleton; iv. Tory and Whig; v. The Tory reaction; 10. James II; i. The king's aims; ii. The military presence; iii. Anglicans, Dissenters, and Catholics; iv. The campaign to pack Parliament; v. The towns and the Revolution of 1688-1689; 11. After the Revolution, 1689-1699; i. The Toleration Act; ii. Party in the 1690's; iii. The Convention, the corporations, and the law; iv. Partisan conflict; 12. The Rage of Party, 1700-1714; i. Croakers and tackers; ii. Sacheverell and after, 1710-1714; 13. The Triumph of the Whigs? 1714-1722; i. A Whig king; ii. Riot and rebellion iii. The role of the military; iv. Politics and the poor; v. The Whigs and the towns; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611154615

0-19-153713-6

1-281-15461-X

OCLC:

437092844