Whigs and cities : Popular politics in the age of Walpole and Pitt
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Whigs and cities : Popular politics in the age of Walpole and Pitt
Clarendon Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [407]-431
Includes index
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Whigs and Cities is the first major study of the urban politics of the early Hanoverian era. The book challenges the view that the political nation was of minimal significance, highlighting the critical contribution of the larger towns to the agitations which beset Walpole and swept Pitt to power. At the same time the book is attentive to the different rhythms and trajectories of urban politics and seeks to show, through a study of Bristol, Norwich, and the
metropolis, the relative strength of the opposition sentiment and its social configurations, the persistence of local antagonisms, and the interplay of economic interest and political clientage. It ends with a discussion of crowds and political festivals which sheds new light on the grass-roots dynamics of
urban political culture.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The City of London in natinal politics: city politics and the rise of Whig oligarchy
- the struggle for control of the City 1728-47
- London, patriotism and Empire 1747-63. Part 2 The social configurations of metropolitan politics: the City of London
- the City of Westminster
- urban Surrey and Middlesex. Part 3 The provincial perspective: the provincial towns and cities
- Bristol- the commerce of politics and the politics of commerce
- Norwich - city of Whigs and weavers. Part 4 Exploring the crowd: the crows in urban politics 1710-60.
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