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Connecting centre and locality : political communication in early modern England / Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.
- Manchester scholarship online.
- Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
- Manchester scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in politics--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Communication in politics.
- Communication--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Communication.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impetus for further scholarship.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey
- 'A dog, a butcher, and a puritan' : the politics of Lent in early modern England / Chris R. Kyle
- The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625-27 / Thomas Cogswell
- Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich / Noah Millstone
- 'Written according to my usual way' : political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England / Jason Peacey
- Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts : central initiatives and local agency in the English civil war / Ann Hughes
- Provincial 'Levellers' and the coming of the regicide in the southwest / David R. Como
- Sovereignty by the book : English corporations, Atlantic plantations and literate order, 1557-1650 / Dan Beaver
- Local expertise in hostile territory : state building in Cromwellian Ireland / Jennifer Wells
- News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660-71 / Lindsay O'Neill
- The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion / Rachel Weil.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9781526147141
- 1526147149
- 9781526155528
- 1526155524
- 9781526147165
- 1526147165
- OCLC:
- 1150080708
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