Government And Politics In Kent, 1640-1914.
Original black cloth, gilt. As new in like coloured pictorial dust wrapper.
£65.00
Publisher
The Boydell Press,/Kent County Council.,
Place
Woodbridge
Date
2001
Synopsis
(kent history project. 7).
Item Description
8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xvii + [1] + 302 pp. Half-title.
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations on 8 plates, with 7 text figures and 6 maps.
Notes
This volume, the seventh in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on the economy of Kent and religion and society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. The volume begins with an important new assessment of the impact of the Civil Wars and Interregnum in Kent, which challenges some of the interpretations of previous studies of this period of Kent's history. The major thrust of the volume is, however, the transformation of Kent's government from a system controlled by a small number of landed families into one which, on the eve of the First World War, involved a much broader range of people from the commercial, industrial and professional classes. There are also detailed studies of political radicalism in Kent between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries and of the impact of crime and the maintenance of public order.
[Stock No. 21163]
Subjects
17th Century • 17th/18th Century • 18th Century • 19th Century • 20th Century • Government • History • Kent • Politics