Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution : the Colchester plunderers / John Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, John, 1948-

Series:

Past and present publications.

Past and present publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--England--Colchester Region--History--17th century.

Political violence.

Social conflict--England--Colchester Region--History--17th century.

Social conflict.

Pillage--England--Colchester Region--History--17th century.

Pillage.

Riots--England--Colchester Region--History--17th century.

Riots.

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Destruction and pillage.

Great Britain.

Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England)--History.

Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England).

Colchester (England : District)--History.

Colchester (England : District).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of the most famous episodes, in which crowds from Essex and Suffolk attacked and plundered the houses of the gentry, and sought to ""ethnically cleanse"" their communities of Catholics. The deeper perspective offered by history shows that this action was not ""blind violence"": the book deciphers the logic that informed the crowd's behavior, and finds evidence of both the importance - and reach - of puritanism and popular parliamentarianism.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1 The event""; ""1. An event and its history""; ""2. The Attacks""; ""Part 2 Contextualising the crowd""; ""3. The micro-politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas""; ""4. The high politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas""; ""Part 3 The confessional crowd""; ""5. The attack on ministers""; ""6. The attack on catholics""; ""Part 4 Reading the crowd""; ""7. Cloth and class""; ""8. Anti-popery and popular Parliamentarianism""; ""Conclusion""

""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-511-04814-9

0-511-15010-5

0-511-00416-8

OCLC:

56756738