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BL
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985130
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b739500
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Rollison, David,1945-
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A commonwealth of the people : : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 /\ David Rollison.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xv, 474 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511770030
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: 0511807546
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: 0521139708
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: 0521853737
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: 9780511770036
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: 9780511807541
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: 9780521139700
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: 9780521853736
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"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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Collective memory-- Political aspects-- Great Britain-- History.
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Community life-- Political aspects-- Great Britain-- History.
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Political culture-- Great Britain-- History.
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Popular culture-- Great Britain-- History.
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Populism-- Great Britain-- History.
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Social change-- Great Britain-- History.
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HISTORY.
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Political culture.
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Politics and government.
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Politische Kultur
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Popular culture.
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Populism.
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Social change.
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Social conditions.
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Volkskultur
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1066-1485.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1485-1603.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1603-1649.
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Great Britain, Social conditions.
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England
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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942
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| LC Classification
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DA176.R65 2010eb
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| NLM classification
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NK 2100rvk
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