Preface List of abbreviations Part I. Corporate Ideal and Partisan Reality: 1. The paradox of partisan politics 2. 'The best of politics' 3. From purge to purge: Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration in the corporations 4. Partisan politics, 1663-1682 Part II. The King and his Corporations, 1660-1688: 5. The corporations and their charters, 1660-1682 6. Quo warranto and the King's corporations, 1682-1685 7. Revolution in the corporations, 1685-1688 Part III. Partisan Conflict and the Law in a Dynamic Society: 8. The legacy of the 1680s 9. Partisan conflict and political stability, 1702-1727 10. 1660, 1688, 1727, and beyond Select bibliography Index.
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