A commonwealth of the people : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / David Rollison.
2010
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A commonwealth of the people : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / David Rollison.
Author
Rollison, David, 1945-
ISBN
9780521139700 (pbk.)
0521139708 (pbk.)
9780521853736
0521853737
0521139708 (pbk.)
9780521853736
0521853737
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xv, 474 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
DA176 .R65 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
942
Summary
"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.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.