Connecting Centre and Locality
Political Communication in Early Modern England
Jason Peacey editor Chris R Kyle editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:24th Mar '20
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This collection explores the dynamics of local/national political culture in seventeenth-century Britain, with particular reference to political communication. It examines the degree to which connections were forged between politics in London, Whitehall and Westminster, politics in the localities and the patterns and processes that can be recovered. The goal is to create a dialogue between two prominent strands in recent historiography and between the work of social and political historians of the early modern period. Chapters by leading historians of Stuart England examine how the state worked to communicate with its people and how local communities, often far from the metropole, opened their own lines of communication with the centre.
'Both the introduction outlining a new direction for communication research and the essays
are successful in opening up new research relating to political communication.'
Journal of British Studies
ISBN: 9781526147158
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
Weight: 540g
256 pages