Revel, Riot And Rebellion: Popular Politics And Culture in England 1603-1660 - Couverture rigide

Underdown, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198227957 ISBN 13 : 9780198227953

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

His thesis will be much debated, but it is undoubtedly a major contribution to the controversy surrounding the causes and the nature of the English Revolution.'___ British Book News .

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What have maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches to do with the English Civil War? A great deal, argues David Underdown. Using three western counties as a case-study, he shows that the war was neither a dispute confined to the elite nor a class struggle of the 'middling sort' against a discredited aristocracy. It was in fact the result of profound disagreements among people of all social levels about the moral basis of their communities; commoners as well as ruler held strong opinions about order and governance. But these opinions varied from place to place, and through a pioneering synthesis of social history and popular culture, Underdown relates political diversity to cultural diversity, and shows that local difference in popular allegiance in the Civil War coincided with regional contrast in the traditional festive culture. The book is thus an important reinterpretation of both the English Revolution and the relationship between society, politics, and culture in the seventeenth century.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Underdown is Professor of History at Yale University. His other publications include: Fire From Heaven: Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198227957
• ISBN 13: 9780198227953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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