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020			_a9780511807541 (ebook)
020			_z9780521853736 (hardback)
020			_z9780521139700 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
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100	1		_aRollison, David, _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA Commonwealth of the People : _bPopular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066–1649 / _cDavid Rollison.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (492 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn 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'.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521853736
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807541
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38536 _d38536