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Part I. The National Context: Introduction: The People, Towns andPolitics of eighteenth-Century England: 1. Print, people and culture in theurban Renaissance; 2. Loyalism abounding to the chief of sinners: thereconfiguration of opposition politics, 1714-35; 3. Patriotic adventure:libertarianism, war and empire, 1736-62; 4. Patriot's apogee: Wilkiteradicalism and the cult of resistance, 1763-74; 5. The crisis: radicalism,loyalism and the American War, 1774-85; Part II. The Cases ofNewcastle-upon-Tyne and Norwich: 6. Changing contexts: Newcastle and Norwichin the eighteenth century; 7. The rejection of deference: Newcastle; 8.Clientage and its discontents: Norwich; Conclusions: the people, the stateand the subject.