A commonwealth of the people : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / / David Rollison [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rollison David <1945->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 474 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 942
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.
• Titolo autorizzato: A commonwealth of the people
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791370403321
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