Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution : the Colchester plunderers / John Walter.
This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of the most famous episodes, in which crowds from Essex and Suffolk attacked and plundered the houses of the gentry, and sought to ""ethnically cleanse&q...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Past and present publications.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of the most famous episodes, in which crowds from Essex and Suffolk attacked and plundered the houses of the gentry, and sought to ""ethnically cleanse"" their communities of Catholics. The deeper perspective offered by history shows that this action was not ""blind violence"": the book deciphers the logic that informed the crowd's behavior, and finds evidence of both the importance - and reach - of puritanism and popular parliamentarianism |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 357 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511004168 9780511004162 9780521651868 0521651867 0511032919 9780511032912 |