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This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. A new kind of politics emerged out of England's Civil War: partisan politics. This happened first in the corporations governing the towns, and not at Parliament as is usually argued. Based on an examination of the records of scores of corporations, this book explains how war unleashed a cycle of purge and counter-purge which continued for decades. It also explains how a society that feared a system of politics based on division found the means to absorb it peacefully. As conflict sharpened in communities everywhere, local competitors turned to the court of King's Bench to resolve their differences. In doing so, they prompted the court to develop a new body of law that protected local governments from the divisive impulses within them.

Arts and Humanities --- History --- Political culture --- Municipal corporations --- Boroughs --- Central-local government relations --- Local government --- History. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Culture --- Political science --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Federal government --- Burghs --- Cities and towns --- Municipal government --- Municipal law (Municipal corporations) --- Public corporations (Municipal corporations) --- Corporations --- Metropolitan government --- Town laws, Medieval --- Law and legislation

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699