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Partisan politics : looking for consensus in eighteenth-century towns / Jon Rosebank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosebank, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--England--West Country--History--18th century.
- Cities and towns.
- Municipal government--England--West Country--History--18th century.
- Municipal government.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- England--West Country.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- a new understanding of towns and their politics
- The perspective of the middling sort
- Local government
- Resistance to interference
- Partisanship
- Religion and party
- In search of stability
- The research deficit in smaller towns
- pt. 1 THE URBAN COMMUNITY
- ch. 2 Economy and community
- the key contexts
- The major industries: shipping
- The major industries: textiles
- Beyond the major industries
- The distribution of wealth
- Other solidarities
- The relationship between economy, society and politics
- ch. 3 The significance of the Church
- The structure of dissent
- Dissent and local government
- The Established Church
- The challenge to order
- ch. 4 Town government
- The structure of town government
- Who served?
- Was town government effective?
- The threat to good government
- pt. 2 THE POLITICAL PROCESS
- ch. 5 Government patronage
- The Excise service
- The Customs service
- Land Tax, Post Office, Army
- The Admiralty
- The patronage process
- ch. 6 The politics of leading townsmen and the gentry
- Bridgwater: the humiliation of the Duke of Chandos
- Plymouth: consensus and the failure of Sir John Rogers
- Totnes: Amyites, Buckleyites and George Treby
- Dartmouth: Holdsworth and Treby
- amicitia perpetua
- Tavistock: the third force
- Taunton: the feud between council and meeting houses
- Tiverton: the role of the Church party
- Partisan politics
- ch. 7 The politics of the wider society
- Taunton: mobs and voters
- Bridgwater: popular Jacobitism
- Totnes and Dartmouth: `Confidents and Intimados' at the Hole in the Wall
- Tavistock: fringe voters
- Plymouth: the role of the freemen
- Tiverton: playing with popular feeling
- The broken cheese beam
- ch. 8 Wider contexts
- Regions
- The longer period
- Where next?
- Bibliography
- Manuscript sources
- Printed sources
- Contemporary
- Modern works.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1905816677
- 9781905816675
- OCLC:
- 1224161671
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