Overview
- A collection of new essays from leading scholars from both the UK and the USA
Challenges the way we traditionally think about politics outofdoors and the importance of popular politics and opinion in the early modern period
Revises existing views about the emergence of the public sphere, and dates it much earlier than we would perhaps think
Part of the book series: Themes in Focus (TIF)
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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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Book Title: The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850
Editors: Tim Harris
Series Title: Themes in Focus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4030-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 296
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland