LEADER 04376nam 22008052 450 001 9910791370403321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-20992-7 010 $a0-511-84809-9 010 $a1-282-65291-5 010 $a9786612652912 010 $a0-511-80754-6 010 $a0-511-76919-9 010 $a0-511-77003-0 010 $a0-511-76696-3 010 $a0-511-76557-6 010 $a0-511-76835-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000011964 035 $a(EBL)542888 035 $a(OCoLC)645098268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414441 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414441 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393843 035 $a(PQKB)11463824 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511807541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC542888 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL542888 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399226 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL265291 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000011964 100 $a20101018d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA commonwealth of the people $epopular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 /$fDavid Rollison$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 474 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-13970-8 311 $a0-521-85373-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat 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 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. 330 $aIn 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'. 606 $aPolitical culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPopulism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aCommunity life$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aCollective memory$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1066-1485 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1485-1603 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1603-1649 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPopulism$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunity life$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCollective memory$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 676 $a942 700 $aRollison$b David$f1945-$01546506 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791370403321 996 $aA commonwealth of the people$93802147 997 $aUNINA