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Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth 1660-1722 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Politics and Society in Great Yarmouth 16601722 - Oxford Historical Monographs Author:Perry Gauci, Clarendon Press This is the first intensive study of the political development of a major English town during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Perry Gauci examines the activities of the local oligarchy over a period which begins in upheaval, in the aftermath of civil war, and ends in the relative stability of early Georgian England. He bring... more »s a fresh perspective to such important episodes as the borough regulation of the 1680s, and the `rage of party' after 1689, by broadening the sphere of `politics' to encompass provincial experiences.« less