The Sense of the People

The Sense of the People
Author: Kathleen Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1995-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521340724

This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.