Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt

by Nicholas Rogers

This is the first major study of urban politics in the early Hanoverian era. Rogers challenges the view that the political nation was of minimal significance, and highlights the critical contribution of larger towns to the agitations that beset Walpole and swept Pitt to power. He shows, through a study of Bristol, Norwich, and London, the relative strength of opposition sentiment, the persistence of local antagonisms, and the interplay of economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198217854
• ISBN13: 9780198217855
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"