Kathleen Wilson

The Sense of the People

Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715 1785
Herausgeber: Roper, Lyndal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The people, the empire, the political subject: all three were contentious issues in the politics and culture of eighteenth-century English cities. This study explores how these three issues came to occupy central roles in the wide-ranging political cultures of English towns between the Hanoverian Succession and the American war, enabling a variety of groups outside the structures of the state to claim a stake in national affairs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780521340724
• ISBN-10: 0521340721
• Artikelnr.: 22251221

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The National Context: Introduction: The People, Towns and Politics of eighteenth-Century England: 1. Print, people and culture in the urban Renaissance; 2. Loyalism abounding to the chief of sinners: the reconfiguration of opposition politics, 1714
35; 3. Patriotic adventure: libertarianism, war and empire, 1736
62; 4. Patriot's apogee: Wilkite radicalism and the cult of resistance, 1763
74; 5. The crisis: radicalism, loyalism and the American War, 1774
85; Part II. The Cases of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Norwich: 6. Changing contexts: Newcastle and Norwich in the eighteenth century; 7. The rejection of deference: Newcastle; 8. Clientage and its discontents: Norwich; Conclusions: the people, the state and the subject.