TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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'" -- Provided by publisher.
AU  - Rollison, David,
CN  - DA176
CN  - DA176
CY  - Cambridge, UK ;
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2010.
ID  - 348705
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Populism
KW  - Community life
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Social change
LK  - http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/53736/cover/9780521853736.jpg
N2  - "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'" -- Provided by publisher.
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, UK ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
SN  - 9780521139700 (pbk.)
SN  - 0521139708 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780521853736
SN  - 0521853737
T1  - A commonwealth of the people :popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 /
TI  - A commonwealth of the people :popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 /
UR  - http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/53736/cover/9780521853736.jpg
ER  -