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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066–1649

Autor David Rollison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2010
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521139700
ISBN-10: 0521139708
Pagini: 490
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface: points of departure; Introduction: an uncommon tradition; Part I. The Emergent Commonalty: 1. What came before: antecedent structures and emergent themes; 2. The formation of a constitutional landscape, c. 1159–1327; 3. The power of a common language; Part II. Accumulating a Tradition: Popular Resistance and Rebellion, 1327–1549: 4. Discords, quarrels and factions of the commonalty: an ensemble of popular demands, 1328–81; 5. The spectre of commonalty: popular rebellion and the commonweal, 1381–1549; Part III. The English Explosion: 6. How trade became an affair of state: the politics of industry, 1381–1640; 7. Touching the wires: industry and empire; Part IV. The Empowered Community: 8. 'The first pace that is sick': the revolution of politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus; 9. 'Boiling hot with questions': the English Revolution and the parting of the ways.

Recenzii

'Ranging across language, landscape, politics, poetry and literature, David Rollison provides an important and powerful history of the development of pre-modern England. A Commonwealth of the People is a fascinating account of the development of the politics of 'commonweal': how, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, the voices of common people became both 'English' and 'communal'. In its scope and imagination, this is an exemplary work of socio-cultural history, both deeply reflective on the process of doing history, and profoundly engaged with the historical landscape it seeks to uncover.' John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, Birkbeck College
'An ambitious and distinctly interesting attempt to provide a new framework for the early modern period.' Keith Wrightson, Professor of History, Yale University
'This is a big, bold enclosure riot of a book. Like rebels breaking down fences separating them from their common land, David Rollison transgresses long-established conventions and boundaries in the historical discipline. In A Commonwealth of the People, Rollison fractures divisions between the medieval and early modern periods, levels distinctions between social and political history, takes constitutional history on a sharp linguistic turn, and merges the local with the global. Rollison will incur the wrath of those who have an investment in the maintenance of the enclosure of the historical discipline. He also does a great job of rewriting an integrated history of medieval and early modern England from the bottom up. This book represents a defining moment in the new social history of politics.' Andy Wood, Professor of Social History, University of East Anglia

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Descriere

Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.