Connecting Centre and Locality: Political Communication in Early Modern England

(Hardback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

This collection explores the dynamics of local ational 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. -- .

Reviews

'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

Author Bio

Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University
Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London