{"product_id":"partisan-politics-looking-for-consensus-in-eighteenth-century-towns-9781905816675","title":"Partisan Politics: Looking for Consensus in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics. It was the towns, and especially the smaller parliamentary boroughs, that set much of the legislative agenda and which defined partisanship. This is also where religious tension was most intense and enduring.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYet there has never been a thoroughgoing comparative study of small-town economy, religion, government and politics. Deep in the archives, the history of a clutch of towns in south-west England in the early years of the eighteenth century offers revelatory insights. Their diverse economic structure and religious divisions made these towns extraordinarily difficult to govern, while late Augustan partisanship spread into the streets and taverns, threatening urban order. This precipitated heady local realignments, with three or even four factions in each place cutting across Whig and Tory lines in the pursuit of consensus. In this intensely urban politics, government patronage was peripheral; area gentry were drawn in but had little control. The impact of this many-sided partisanship on national politics was profound.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBuilding a clearer picture of significant change around the time of the Hanoverian accession, this book proposes a fresh approach both to the study of early modern politics and of towns far beyond its immediate region. It will be an important asset to scholars and students of both.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Rosebank's painstaking research adds significantly to the literature on eighteenth-century towns, and on the relationship between ‘the people’ and the political institutions by which they were governed.\u003c\/p\u003e -- D.W. Hayton * Parliaments, Estates and Representation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is local history used to excellent effect, built upon comprehensive and thorough archival research, and conveyed with admirable lucidity.\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Harris * Parliamentary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e… an interesting study, rooted in a detailed study of archival material, which configures the interplay between the forces at play in urban politics well.\u003c\/p\u003e -- William Gibson, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: Introduction—a new \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eunderstanding of towns and their politics \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe perspective of the middling sort\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLocal government\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eResistance to interference\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePartisanship\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReligion and party\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn search of stability\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe research deficit in smaller towns\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 1: THE URBAN COMMUNITY \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Economy and community— the key contexts \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe major industries: shipping\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe major industries: textiles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBeyond the major industries\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe distribution of wealth\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOther solidarities\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe relationship between economy, society and politics\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: The significance of the Church\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe structure of dissent\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDissent and local government\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Established Church\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe challenge to order\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: Town government \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe structure of town government\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWho served?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWas town government effective?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe threat to good government\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART 2: THE POLITICAL PROCESS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5: Government patronage \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Excise service\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Customs service\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLand Tax, Post Office, Army\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Admiralty\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe patronage process\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6: The politics of leading townsmen and the gentry \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBridgwater: the humiliation of the Duke of Chandos\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlymouth: consensus and the failure of Sir John Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTotnes: Amyites, Buckleyites and George Treby\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDartmouth: Holdsworth and Treby—\u003cem\u003eamicitia perpetua \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTavistock: the third force\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTaunton: the feud between council and meeting houses\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTiverton: the role of the Church party\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePartisan politics\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7: The politics of the wider society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTaunton: mobs and voters\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBridgwater: popular Jacobitism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTotnes and Dartmouth: ‘Confidents and Intimados’ at the Hole in the Wall\u003cbr\u003e  Tavistock: fringe voters\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlymouth: the role of the freemen\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTiverton: playing with popular feeling\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe broken cheese beam\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8: Wider contexts \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRegions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe longer period\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhere next?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliography \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eManuscript sources\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePrinted sources\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eContemporary\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eModern works\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360238534999,"sku":"9781905816675","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781905816675.jpg?v=1754127082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/partisan-politics-looking-for-consensus-in-eighteenth-century-towns-9781905816675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}