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A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649
Contributor(s): Rollison, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521853737     ISBN-13: 9780521853736
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2010
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Annotation: Extraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- History | Social History
- Political Science
Dewey: 942
LCCN: 2009035291
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9" L (2.00 lbs) 492 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)
- Chronological Period - 15th Century
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2010
 
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Publisher Description:
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'.

Contributor Bio(s): Rollison, David: - David Rollison is an independent scholar and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500 1800 (1992).
 
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