{"product_id":"dismembering-the-body-politic-partisan-politics-in-englands-towns-1650-1730-9780521552530","title":"Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul D. Halliday\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Theory - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. England's civil wars in the 1640s broke apart a society that had been used to political consensus. Though all sought unity after the wars ended, a new kind of politics developed--one based on partisan division, arising first in urban communities, not at Parliament. This book explains how war unleashed a long cycle of purge and counter-purge and how society found the means to absorb divisive politics peacefully. Legal changes are explored with reference to the rarely-studied court records of King's Bench, to which local competitors turned for help in resolving their differences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614633410711,"sku":"9780521552530","price":15896.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521552530.webp?v=1775095116","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dismembering-the-body-politic-partisan-politics-in-englands-towns-1650-1730-9780521552530","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}