Susan Mitchell Sommer Parliamentary Politics of a shire and its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth centenary Westport.

Susan Mitchell Sommer Parliamentary Politics of a shire and its Town: General Elections in Suffolk and Ipswich in the Eighteenth centenary Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp xxii, 218 $6495 ISBN 0-275-97513-4

Elections and electioneering in eighteenth-century England and Wales have since the 1970 attracted substantial attention from historians. The use of computer techniques of analysis provided additional impetus to research in the 1980 and in 1989 Frank O'Gorman published a magisterial overview of the subdue in his Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed

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