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Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution

The Colchester Plunderers

Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution( )
Author: Walter, John
Contribution by: Roper, Lyndal
Series title:Past and Present Publications
ISBN:978-0-521-65186-8
Publication Date:Jun 1999
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $194.95
Book Description:

This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behaviour. 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 behaviour, and finds...
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Book Details
Pages:374
Detailed Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16 x 23.6 x 2.9 cm
Book Weight:0.673 Kilograms
Author Biography
Walter, John (Author)
John Walter is a respected authority on all aspects of weaponry.

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