{"product_id":"dismembering-the-body-politic-paul-d-halliday-9780521526043","title":"Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730","description":"This 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul D. Halliday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521526043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521526043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Paul D. Halliday","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587634704639,"sku":"9780521526043","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dismembering-the-body-politic-paul-d-halliday-9780521526043","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}