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Article: Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 1999
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Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730, by Paul D. Halliday. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 393 pp. $69.95.
From the Middle Ages, borough corporations were authorized by the king to act in his name as a single body with many members. Paul Halliday describes how partisan politics dismembered the body politic between the time of the civil wars and the Walpolean ascendancy.
For several decades interpretive studies have been moving away from the centre and into the counties, boroughs and parishes of England, but two aspects of Halliday's study offer something new: his view of partisan politics from ...