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Author Walter, John, 1948-

Title Understanding popular violence in the English Revolution : the Colchester plunderers / John Walter
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 357 pages)
Series Past and present publications
Past & present publications
Past and present publications
Contents The event. An event and its history ; The attacks -- Contextualising the crowd. The micro-politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas ; The high politics of the attack on Sir John Lucas -- The confessional crowd. The attack on ministers ; The attack on Catholics -- Reading the crowd. Cloth and class ; Anti-popery and popular Parliamentarianism
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Political violence -- England -- Colchester Region -- History -- 17th century
Social conflict -- England -- Colchester Region -- History -- 17th century
Pillage -- England -- Colchester Region -- History -- 17th century
Riots -- England -- Colchester Region -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY.
Destruction and pillage
Pillage
Political violence
Riots
Social conflict
Oproeren.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Destruction and pillage
Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England) -- History
Colchester Region (England) -- History
Subject England -- Stour Valley (Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk, England)
Great Britain
Colchester.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511004168
9780511004162
9780521651868
0521651867
0511032919
9780511032912