{"product_id":"dismembering-the-body-politic-partisan-politics-in-englands-towns-1650-1730-cambridge-studies-in-early-modern-british-history","title":"Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650–1730 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650–1730 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) (Hardcover, 416 pages) – Cambridge University Press, 1998. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. England's civil wars in the 1640s broke apart a society that had been used to political consensus. Though all sought unity after the wars ended, a new kind of politics developed--one based on partisan division, arising first in urban communities, not at Parliament. This book explains how war unleashed a long cycle of purge and counter-purge and how society found the means to absorb divisive politics peacefully. Legal changes are explored with reference to the rarely-studied court records of King's Bench, to which local competitors turned for help in resolving their differences.  ","brand":"Paul D. Halliday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070555869418,"sku":"9780521552530","price":134.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/dismembering-the-body-politic-partisan-politics-in-englands-towns-1650-1730-cambridge-studies-in-early-modern-british-history","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}