| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The working of politics -- Rulers and ruled -- A self-governing people -- The law -- Centre and localities -- Policy- and decision-making -- Local government -- The means of coercion -- Favour and reward -- The mechanisms of patronage -- The nature of rewards -- News -- The demand for news -- Print -- Handwritten news -- Word of mouth -- Popular politics -- The nature of popular politics -- Riot -- Elections -- Parliament -- Representatives and represented -- The business of Parliament -- King and Parliament -- Political division and conflict -- The issues: I. Popery and arbitrary government -- The ancient constitution -- Anti-popery -- Popery and arbitrary government -- The issues: II. Church and Dissent -- Before the Restoration -- The Restoration settlement -- Church and people -- The nature of Dissent: Presbyterians -- The nature of Dissent: Independents, Baptists and Quakers -- Persecution -- The frustrations of the Cavaliers, 1660-64 -- The liquidation of the past -- The resentments of the Cavaliers -- The machinery of coercion -- The Corporation Act -- The church settlement -- The Cavaliers' revenge? -- Politics in flux, 1664-73 -- The second Dutch war and its aftermath -- The Cabal -- Church and Dissent -- The rebirth of party, 1673-78 -- Danby and the direction of policy -- Danby and the patronage system -- Partisan divisions: Parliament -- Partisan divisions: the localities -- The politicization of the legal system -- 'Guelphs and Ghibellines', 1679-81 -- A county divided |
| Summary |
"This book presents the first study of Restoration England from the point of view of both rulers and ruled. It offers a vital reappraisal of seventeenth-century England."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2000 by Pearson Education Limited |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056896
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Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056800
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317885535 |
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1317885538 |
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