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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The political world of Sir John Holland | |
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| Aims and arguments | |
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| The personal rule of Charles II | |
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| Partisanship | |
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| Structure of the book | |
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| The Shape of the Period | |
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| Introduction: The view from Oxford | |
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| A failed Restoration, 1660-81 | |
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| Partisanship, plotting, and persecution, 1681-85 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Partisanship and Government without Parliament | |
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| Introduction: Popery and arbitrary government | |
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| The end of parliaments? | |
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| Charles II, the succession, and office-holding | |
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| Partisanship and the instability of government | |
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| The Church of England and partisan politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Politics of Religious Persecution | |
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| Introduction: Persecution and nonconformity | |
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| Hating dissent | |
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| The physical and financial costs of persecution | |
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| Sympathy for dissenters and the regional variety of persecution | |
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| Partisanship and religious tensions | |
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| Conventicles and sedition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| News and Partisan Politics | |
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| Introduction: The political importance of news | |
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| The credibility of news | |
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| Consuming news and policing the public sphere | |
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| Centres and signs of partisanship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Print and Polemical Politics | |
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| Introduction: Polemical writing during the personal rule | |
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| Tories and religion: Caricature and self-image | |
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| Whigs, 'true Protestants', and dissent | |
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| Whigs, a broad church, and anti-clericalism | |
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| The religious battleground: Unity or uniformity? | |
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| Kingship and a stable constitution | |
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| 'Commonwealth principles' and 'arbitrary government' | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Partisan Politics in the British Monarchies | |
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| Introduction: 'the menace and steddy aspect of these two Kingdoms' | |
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| Parliaments and politics | |
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| Royal government, office-holding, and persecution | |
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| The established churches | |
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| Partisan interactions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 1685 | |
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| The weakness of the middle ground | |
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| Whig and tory | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |