The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of
urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and
citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly
pivotal place of cities and boroughs within the national polity. It
considers the practices that constituted urban citizenship as well
as its impact on the economic, patriarchal and religious life of
towns and the larger commonwealth. The author has recovered the
language and concepts used at the time, whether by eminent citizens
like Andrew Marvell or more humble tradesmen and craftsmen.
Unprecedented in terms of the range of its sources and freshness of
its approach, the book reveals a dimension of early modern culture
that has major implications for how we understand the English
state, economy and 'public sphere'; the political upheavals of the
mid-seventeenth-century and popular political participation more
generally.
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