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tradition and transformation in local government, 1780-1840

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An edition of Governing rural England (1994)

Governing rural England

tradition and transformation in local government, 1780-1840

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Governing Rural England provides a new perspective on the process of state formation in modern England. It begins by identifying the complex ideological, cultural, and institutional influences which shaped the political provincialism of later Hanoverian England.

In contrast to traditional accounts, which emphasized the ineffective, even oligarchic, character of the administration of rural England, David Eastwood demonstrates its effectiveness and capacity to adapt, and uncovers the complex interplay between central and local institutions which lay at the heart of the late Hanoverian polity.

By examining key areas of policy (poor law administration, police, crime and punishment) Dr Eastwood explains the ways in which new principles of public administration combined with rapid social change to create a profound crisis in English local government in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The resolution of this crisis led to a diminution in the role and power of traditional governing elites in rural England.

This complex reconfiguration of authority within the English state had a profound influence on the developing political culture and institutional framework of modern Britain.

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Governing rural England: tradition and transformation in local government, 1780-1840
1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-301) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 1985.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford historical monographs

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.8/0941/09033
Library of Congress
JS3051 .E27 1994, JS3051.E27 1994

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Pagination
xiii, 311 p. :
Number of pages
311

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OL1428152M
ISBN 10
0198204817
LCCN
93039355
OCLC/WorldCat
29361262
Library Thing
4842210
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3457722

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