Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 8 Modern works. The perspective of the middling sort -- Local government -- Resistance to interference -- Partisanship -- Religion and party -- In search of stability -- The research deficit in smaller towns -- pt. 1 THE URBAN COMMUNITY -- ch. 2 Economy and community -- the key contexts -- The major industries: shipping -- The major industries: textiles -- Beyond the major industries -- The distribution of wealth -- Other solidarities -- The relationship between economy, society and politics -- ch. 3 The significance of the Church -- The structure of dissent -- Dissent and local government -- The Established Church -- The challenge to order -- ch. 4 Town government -- The structure of town government -- Who served? -- Was town government effective? -- The threat to good government -- pt. 2 THE POLITICAL PROCESS -- ch. 5 Government patronage -- The Excise service -- The Customs service -- Land Tax, Post Office, Army -- The Admiralty -- The patronage process -- ch. 6 The politics of leading townsmen and the gentry -- Bridgwater: the humiliation of the Duke of Chandos -- Plymouth: consensus and the failure of Sir John Rogers -- Totnes: Amyites, Buckleyites and George Treby -- Dartmouth: Holdsworth and Treby -- amicitia perpetua -- Tavistock: the third force -- Taunton: the feud between council and meeting houses -- Tiverton: the role of the Church party -- Partisan politics -- ch. 7 The politics of the wider society -- Taunton: mobs and voters -- Bridgwater: popular Jacobitism -- Totnes and Dartmouth: `Confidents and Intimados' at the Hole in the Wall -- Tavistock: fringe voters -- Plymouth: the role of the freemen -- Tiverton: playing with popular feeling -- The broken cheese beam -- ch. 8 Wider contexts -- Regions -- The longer period -- Where next? -- Bibliography -- Manuscript sources -- Printed sources -- Contemporary -- Modern works.
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