Partisan Politics : Looking for Consensus in Eighteenth-Century Towns /: Looking for Consensus in Eighteenth-Century Towns. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jon Rosebank.
• Authors: Rosebank, Jon
• Contents: Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 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 PART 1: THE URBAN COMMUNITY Chapter 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 <p class="p1">The relationship between economy, society and politics Chapter 3: The significance of the Church The structure of dissent Dissent and local government The Established Church The challenge to order Chapter 4: Town government The structure of town government Who served? Was town government effective? The threat to good government PART 2: THE POLITICAL PROCESS ; Chapter 5: Government patronage The Excise service The Customs service Land Tax, Post Office, Army The Admiralty The patronage process Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 8: Wider contexts Regions The longer period Where next? <p class="p1">Bibliography Manuscript sources Printed sources Contemporary Modern works Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State; HISTORY / Europe / General; Social & cultural history; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Regional government; Religion & politics; European history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781905816699; 1905816693
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