London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- Author: Tim Harris
- Date Published: May 1990
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521398459
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This study of the political attitudes of ordinary Londoners during the reign of Charles II examines not only the manifestations of public opinion - for example, riot and demonstration - but also the manner of its formation - religious experience, economic activity, and exposure to mass political propaganda. Professor Harris shows to be misleading the conventional view, that the whigs enjoyed the support of the London masses, and the tories were essentially anti-populist. Both sides had public support during the exclusion crisis, and this division stemmed from fundamental religious tensions within London political culture, dating back to 1660 and before. Attractively illustrated with polemical contemporary engravings, London Crowds demonstrates clearly the value of bringing together both high and low activity into a truly integrated social history of politics, and sheds important new light not just on urban agitation but on the nature of late-Stuart party conflict.
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- Date Published: May 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521398459
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.415kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Approaches to the crowd
2. Reconstructing the political culture of the people
3. The people and the restoration
4. The problem of religion
5. Whig mass propaganda during the exclusion crisis
6. The tory response
7. Crowd politics and exclusion
8. The economics of crowd politics
9. A divided society
Bibliography
Index.
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