{"product_id":"loyalty-and-locality-9780859895002","title":"Loyalty And Locality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"... a model of scrupulous scholarship, which sets a high standard to imitate for those who seek in future to apply similar techniques to other counties in order to interpret popular attitudes to the rival parties in the English Civil War.\" (War in History, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999) \" . . . the work of a historian of unmistakable flair. Like all really good local studies it has a sensuous feel for the nature of its territory, and utilizes a very wide range of varieties of source material to reconstruct the experience of its people.\" (History, Volume 83, No. 269, January 1998) \"The book is a brilliantly original exploration of Devon's experience of the seventeenth-century civil wars... his work has important implications for the whole history of Stuart England.\" (David Underdown, Professor of History, Yale University) \"There is no doubt that this book will now represent the benchmark of how to measure popular participation [in the English Civil War]...\" (John Morrill, Reader in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge) \"'It is a book which displays what every solid work of history ought to exhibit, that curious epithet which emanates from senior common rooms: \"a first-class mind\". ... The clarity and cogency of the argument shine through.\" (Literary Review) \". . . an important contribution to the long-running debate on the origins and nature of the English Civil War.\" (History Today) \"A clear, persuasive and often trenchantly written discussion.... he has made a significant and refreshingly original contribution to regional history and to the diverse, oft-changing, story of the English Civil War.\" (English Historical Review)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e PART I: THE CONTEXT \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. A Portrait of Early Stuart Devon \u003cbr\u003e PART II: PATTERNS OF ALLEGIANCE, 1642-1646 \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Chronology \u003cbr\u003e 2. 'The Well-affected Corner': Popular Parliamentarianism in Devon, 1642-1646 \u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Our Ill-affected Country Parishes': The Strongholds of Popular Royalism \u003cbr\u003e 4. Refining the Picture: Further Light on Allegiance Patterns\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Fractured Polity: Allegiances in Exeter \u003cbr\u003e 6. Neutralism: The Case of the Clubmen \u003cbr\u003e PART III: THE DETERMINANTS OF ALLEGIANCE, c.1600-1642 \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 7. Deference or Defiance? The Role of the Gentry \u003cbr\u003e 8. An Ecology of Allegiance? Ethnology, Land Use and Occupation \u003cbr\u003e 9. 'True Blades for Liberties': Pre-war Opposition to the Caroline Regime \u003cbr\u003e 10. 'True Blades for Religion': The Role of Puritanism \u003cbr\u003e 11. 'Mere Conventicles of Bad Fellows': The Cultural and Religious Determinants of Popular Royalism \u003cbr\u003e PART IV: THE NATIONAL PICTURE \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 12. 'Out of the Dust of the Earth'? \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Devon Parishes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359247368535,"sku":"9780859895002","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859895002.jpg?v=1754124099","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/loyalty-and-locality-9780859895002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}