Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution The Colchester Plunderers |
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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
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $194.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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 evidence of both the importance--and reach--of puritanism and popular parliamentarianism.