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Reform in the Provinces (Hardcover)
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Reform in the Provinces (Hardcover)
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The foundation of the English state from the reigns of the Tudors
to the age of Queen Victoria was a partnership between the crown
and the country gentlemen who exercised administration and justice
in the localities. This book is about a formative period in the
making of that partnership. Anthony Fletcher suggests that the
gentry's vigorous response to a gathering social crisis in the
early decades of the seventeenth century enabled them to strengthen
their nearly dominant hold upon local power. Although reform in the
provinces, directed towards improving the efficiency and
effectiveness of government, was not a tidy or even an entirely
consistent process, there was enough continuity of administrative
effort to ensure that by the reign of Queen Anne the enforcement of
order had been streamlined in many respects. This book - the first
synthesis of work done in the last two decades on local government
- also provides fresh archival data on a number of counties.
Fletcher begins with an account of the men who held office as
justices of the peace and of their relationships with the Council
in London and with the villagers they governed. He then explores in
detail the world of the magistrate at work, paying particular
attention to initiatives directed towards increasing the tempo of
government and to the making of magisterial policy. In the second
half of the book, Fletcher utilizes three case studies - of
poverty, behaviour, and the militia - to explain the obstacles in
the way of reform and assess how it was sometimes achieved. By
analyzing the patterns, style, and impetus of the government that
magistrates and deputy lieutenants achieved, Fletcher is able to
explore fundamental changes in the nature and extent of gentry
control and in the attitudes of the gentry to the public service.
His book is an important and original contribution to Stuart and
Restoration history. Anthony Fletcher has been Professor of History
at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham and Essex, and Director of
the Victoria County History Project at London University. His books
include 'Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800',
published by Yale.
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