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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455066903321

Autore

Walter John <1948->

Titolo

Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the Colchester plunderers / / John Walter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-511-04814-9

0-511-15010-5

0-511-00416-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Past and present publications

Disciplina

942.06/2

Soggetti

Political violence - England - Colchester Region - History - 17th century

Social conflict - England - Colchester Region - History - 17th century

Pillage - England - Colchester Region - History - 17th century

Riots - England - Colchester Region - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Destruction and pillage

Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England) History

Colchester (England : District) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1 The event""; ""1. An event and its history""; ""2. The Attacks""; ""Part 2 Contextualising the crowd""; ""3. The micro-politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas""; ""4. The high politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas""; ""Part 3 The confessional crowd""; ""5. The attack on ministers""; ""6. The attack on catholics""; ""Part 4 Reading the crowd""; ""7. Cloth and class""; ""8. Anti-popery and popular Parliamentarianism""; ""Conclusion""

""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of



the most famous episodes, in which crowds from Essex and Suffolk attacked and plundered the houses of the gentry, and sought to ""ethnically cleanse"" their communities of Catholics. The deeper perspective offered by history shows that this action was not ""blind violence"": the book deciphers the logic that informed the crowd's behavior, and finds evidence of both the importance - and reach - of puritanism and popular parliamentarianism.