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UNINA9910791370403321 |
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Autore |
Rollison David <1945-> |
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A commonwealth of the people : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / / David Rollison [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010 |
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1-107-20992-7 |
0-511-84809-9 |
1-282-65291-5 |
9786612652912 |
0-511-80754-6 |
0-511-76919-9 |
0-511-77003-0 |
0-511-76696-3 |
0-511-76557-6 |
0-511-76835-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 474 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Political culture - Great Britain - History |
Popular culture - Great Britain - History |
Populism - Great Britain - History |
Community life - Political aspects - Great Britain - History |
Collective memory - Political aspects - Great Britain - History |
Social change - Great Britain - History |
Great Britain Politics and government 1066-1485 |
Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603 |
Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1649 |
Great Britain Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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What came before: antecedent structures and emergent themes -- The formation of a constitutional landscape, c. 1159-1327 -- The power of a common language -- Discords, quarrels and factions of the |
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commonalty: an ensemble of popular demands, 1328-1381 -- The spectre of commonalty: popular rebellion and the commonweal, 1381-1549 -- How trade became an affair of state: the politics of industry, 1381-1640 -- Touching the wires: industry and empire -- 'The first pace that is sick': the revolution of politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- 'Boiling hot with questions': the English Revolution and the parting of the ways. |
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In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'. David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past. A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, populist movement. The keyword of this long revolution, 'commonwealth', has been largely invisible in traditional constitutional history. This panoramic synthesis of political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, economic, literary and linguistic movements offers a 'new constitutional history' in which state institutions and power elites were subordinate and answerable to a greater community that the early modern English called 'commonwealth' and we call 'society'. |
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UNINA9910792226303321 |
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Autore |
Lee Maurice S |
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Uncertain chances [[electronic resource] ] : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
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0-19-020853-8 |
0-19-998581-2 |
1-283-42737-0 |
0-19-979767-6 |
9786613427373 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Chance in literature |
Probability in literature |
Skepticism in literature |
Belief and doubt in literature |
Pragmatism in literature |
Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century |
Christianity and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
United States Intellectual life 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Probably Poe; Method-If Method There Is; Vast Individual Error; Things External to the Game; 2. Moby-Dick and the Opposite of Providence; The Cause of the Hunt; The Indifferent Sword of Chance; At a Venture; 3. Doubting If Doubt Itself Be Doubting: After Moby-Dick; Judge ye, then, ye Judicious; Pierre and Pragmatism; "Bartleby" and Buridan's Ass; 4. Douglass's Long Run; Providence and Improvidence; Balancing Probabilities; Give Them a Chance!; Reconstructing Black Pragmatism; 5. Roughly Thoreau; Axes and Knives; Errors and Averages |
Fish and GamesAn Unfinished Life of Science; Summing Up; 6. |
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Dickinson's Precarious Steps, Surprising Leaps, and Bounds; Romantic Embarrassments; Chances for Heaven; Precarious Gaits; Having an Experience; Coda: Lost Causes and the Civil War; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and philosophical controversies while revolutionizing the sciences as probabilistic methods spread from mathematics, economics, and sociology to physics and evolutionary biology. Chance also became more visible in everyday life, as Americans attempted to control its power through weather forecasting, insurance policies, military strategy, a |
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