This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of the 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban politics and its use of a rich and diverse array of sources - from newspapers, prints and plays to pottery and tea-cloths - it shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to ...
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This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of the 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban politics and its use of a rich and diverse array of sources - from newspapers, prints and plays to pottery and tea-cloths - it shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.
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Add this copy of The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Cambridge University Press.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "This much anticipated re-examination of English urban political culture builds upon the scholarship of a generation and formulates a narrative of political change that makes imperial considerations crucial. This book is a welcome advance in understanding, and an invitation to further work."-Ian Steele, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Add this copy of The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and to cart. $44.95, very good condition, Sold by Prior Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Cambridge University Press.
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Very Good. Size: 5x1x8; Original stiff card covers; in very good shape; no tears, chips or creases, just mildly rubbed and edge-worn. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels.
Add this copy of The Sense of People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism to cart. $52.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Cambridge University Press.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is lightly worn, particularly along edges. Spine is slightly shaken. Cover edges are worn, especially along spine. Front free end paper has previous owner's signature. Inside was lightly marked in pencil, but has been erased.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Contains: Halftones, Maps, Tables. Past and Present Publications . 15 b/w illus. 1 map 7 tables. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and to cart. $67.49, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Cambridge University Press.
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