Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660
by David Underdown
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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 basisof their communities; commoners as well as ruler held strong show more 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 thatlocal 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. show lessTags
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David Underdown is the Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University.
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- Somerset, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 941.06 — History & geography History of Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1603-1714, House of Stuart and Commonwealth periods
- LCC
- DA390 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- Early Stuarts, 1603-1642
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