Author

Publication

1999 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

89,250 words, Guess

Page Count

357 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads4524662
  • LibraryThing4921221

Classifications

  • DDC942.06/2
  • LCCDA406 .W35 1999

Description

This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best-known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes. The so-called Stour Valley riots have become accepted as the paradigm of class hostility, determining plebeian behaviour within the Revolution. An exercise in micro-history, the book questions this dominant reading by trying to understand the interrelated contexts of local responses to the political and religious counterrevolution of the 1630s and the confessional politics of the early 1640s.

Subjects

Topics

RiotsHistoryPillageSocial conflictPolitical violenceDestruction and pillageCochester Region (England) -- History.

Places

EnglandGreat BritainColchester RegionCochester Region (England)England) Stour Valley (Essex and SuffolkStour Valley (Essex and Suffolk, England)

Series Statement

  • Past and present publications

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