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The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 (Paperback)
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The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 (Paperback)
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This collection of essays seeks to shed light on the politics of
those people who are normally thought of as being excluded from the
political nation in early modern England. If by political nation we
mean those who sat in parliament, the governors of counties and
towns, and the enfranchised classes in the constituencies, then the
'excluded' would be those who were neither actively involved in the
process of governing nor had any say in choosing those who would
rule over them - the bulk of the population at this time. Yet this
volume shows that these people were not, in fact, excluded from
politics. Not only did the masses possess political opinions which
they were capable of articulating in a public forum, but they were
alos often active participants in the political process themselves
and taken seriously in that capacity by the governmental elite. The
various essays deal with topics as wide-ranging as riots, rumours,
libels, seditious words, public opinion, the structures of local
government, and the gendered dimensions of popular political
participation, and cover the period from the eve of the Reformation
to the Industrial Revolution. They challenge many existing
assumptions concerning the nature and significance of public
opinion and politics out-of-doors in the early modern period and
show us that the people mattered in politics, and thus why we, as
historians, cannot afford to ignore them. Politics was more
participatory, in this undemocratic age, than one might have
thought. The contributors to this volume show that there was a
lively and engaged public sphere throughout this period, from Tudor
times to the Georgian era.
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