Connecting centre and locality: political communication in early modern England

This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impetus...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kyle, Chris R. 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Peacey, Jason 1968- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
Zusammenfassung:This collection examines political communication in early modern Britain. Leading historians of the period scrutinise relations between centre and locality and how the state interacted with its citizens. They place communication at the heart of both political and social history to provide an impetus for further scholarship
Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Introduction -- 'A dog, a butcher, and a puritan': the politics of Lent in early modern England -- The Lord Admiral, the Parliament-men and the narrow seas, 1625-27 -- Space, place and Laudianism in early Stuart Ipswich -- 'Written according to my usual way': political communication and the rise of the agent in seventeenth-century England -- Diligent enquiries and perfect accounts: central initiatives and local agency in the English civil war -- Provincial 'Levellers' and the coming of the regicide in the south-west -- Sovereignty by the book: English corporations, Atlantic plantations and literate order, 1557-1650 -- Local expertise in hostile territory: state building in Cromwellian Ireland -- News and the personal letter, or the news education of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 1660-71 -- The news out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite rebellion -- Index
Beschreibung:xiv, 253 Seiten 1 Karte
ISBN:9781526147158