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A commonwealth of the people : popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 /
"In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set.' David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set.' David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past. A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links and chains of collective memory in a unique, vernacular, populist movement. The keyword of this long revolution, 'commonwealth, ' has been largely invisible in traditional constitutional history. This panoramic synthesis of political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, economic, literary, and linguistic movements offers a 'new constitutional history' in which state institutions and power elites were subordinate and answerable to a greater community that the early modern English called 'commonwealth' and we call 'society'"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 474 pages) |
| Premios: | Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010 |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511770036 0511770030 9780521853736 0521853737 9780521139700 0521139708 9780511807541 0511807546 1107209927 9781107209923 0511848099 9780511848094 1282652915 9781282652910 9786612652912 6612652918 0511769199 9780511769191 0511766963 9780511766961 0511765576 9780511765575 0511768354 9780511768354 |