Synopses & Reviews
An account of the emergence of local partisan politics in the century after the English Civil War.
Table of Contents
Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Corporate Ideal and Partisan Reality: 1. The paradox of partisan politics; 2. 'The best of politics'; 3. From purge to purge: Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration in the corporations; 4. Partisan politics, 1663-1682; Part II. The King and his Corporations, 1660-1688: 5. The corporations and their charters, 1660-1682; 6. Quo warranto and the King's corporations, 1682-1685; 7. Revolution in the corporations, 1685-1688; Part III. Partisan Conflict and the Law in a Dynamic Society: 8. The legacy of the 1680s; 9. Partisan conflict and political stability, 1702-1727; 10. 1660, 1688, 1727, and beyond; Select bibliography; Index.