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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walter, John, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Past and present publications.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Political violence > England > Colchester Region > History > 17th century.
Social conflict > England > Colchester Region > History > 17th century.
Pillage > England > Colchester Region > History > 17th century.
Riots > England > Colchester Region > History > 17th century.
HISTORY.
Destruction and pillage.
Pillage.
Political violence.
Riots.
Social conflict.
Oproeren.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Destruction and pillage.
Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England) > History.
Colchester Region (England) > History.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1660 (Révolution puritaine) > Destruction et pillage.
England > Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England)
Great Britain.
Colchester.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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