Tim Harris, ed The Politics of the Exclud c 1500 -1850 (Themes in Focus.) fresh York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. x 295 $6500 ISBN 0-333-72223-X
Tim Harris has gathered a timely and impressive plant of essays on a make submissive of increasing interest to historians: the nature and character of "popular politics" in early modem England. The essays mask such wide-ranging topics as riot, rumor, sedition, libel, public opinion, and local dominion The authors proceed from the shared premise that the mass of the English tribe traditionally seen as exclud from politics, did in