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9780198204817

Governing Rural England Tradition and Transformation in Local Government 1780-1840

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    9780198204817

  • ISBN10:

    0198204817

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-08-11
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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This study provides a new perspective on the process of state formation in modern England. Eastwood uncovers the complex interplay between central and local institutions that lay at the heart of Hanoverian polity, and shows how the transformation of local government in the early nineteenth century had a profound influence on the developing political culture and institutional framework of modern Britain.

Author Biography

David Eastwood is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Pembroke College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
Images of Authority: Ideologies of Powerp. 9
Structures of Authority: The Parish and the Vestryp. 24
Structures of Authority: The County and the Sessionsp. 43
Men of Authority: The Magistrates and their Systemp. 76
Local Government, Parliament, and the Problem of Poverty 1795-1819p. 99
A Life of Expedients: The Old Poor Law at Workp. 133
Independent Nations: The Parochial Administration of the Poor Law and Beyondp. 166
Crime, Justice, and the Challenge to Orderp. 191
Police, Punishment, and the Maintenance of Orderp. 225
Conclusionp. 261
Select Bibliographyp. 266
Indexp. 303
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