Dismembering the Body Politic : Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730 (Paperback)

Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Corporate Ideal and Partisan Reality: 1. The paradox of partisan politics; 2. 'The best of politics'; 3. From purge to purge: Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration in the corporations; 4. Partisan politics, 1663?1682; Part II. The King and his Corporations, 1660?1688: 5. The corporations and their charters, 1660?1682; 6. Quo warranto and the King's corporations, 1682?1685; 7. Revolution in the corporations, 1685?1688; Part III. Partisan Conflict and the Law in a Dynamic Society: 8. The legacy of the 1680s; 9. Partisan conflict and political stability, 1702?1727; 10. 1660, 1688, 1727, and beyond; Select bibliography; Index.