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Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution : the Colchester plunderers /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walter, John, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Past and present publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The event. An event and its history ; The attacks
  • Contextualising the crowd. The micro-politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas ; The high politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas
  • The confessional crowd. The attack on ministers ; The attack on Catholics
  • Reading the crowd. Cloth and class ; Anti-popery and popular Parliamentarianism.