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A Commonwealth of the People - Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649 (Paperback)
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A Commonwealth of the People - Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649 (Paperback)
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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'.
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