Plotting Popular Politics In Interregnum England
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| Author | : Caroline S. Boswell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 692 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780549674597 |
This dissertation examines how ordinary English men and women negotiated the social, cultural and political changes that accompanied a devastating Civil War and the execution of their King in 1649. Arguing against the dichotomy that classifies people's reactions as either 'conventional' or 'radical' based on their political allegiances, it maintains that the people supported regimes whose pretenses conformed to popular values. This study includes an investigation of the various means of resistance people exercised against government intrusion into their everyday lives. Despite officials' repressive measures to curb the expression of opinion, people continued to engage with the political culture fostered by the outbreak of pamphlet literature during the civil wars. Court records, pamphlets and manuscript accounts indicate that men and women articulated discontent through speech acts, ritualistic violence, intimidation and noncooperation with the enforcement of unpopular policies. In response to intrusive policies, people frequently focused their grievances on symbolic figures associated with the state. These despised characters, such as excise-men and soldiers, were people whose entrance into local society led to a drain on its economy and threatened its stability---with no perceivable benefit to its inhabitants. Although these manifestations of dissent cannot simply be equated with popular royalism, the fact remains that the restoration of the monarchy was largely welcomed throughout the nation. This dissertation argues that royalist propagandists redefined people's animosity toward the Interregnum state as evidence of their loyalty to the Stuarts, particularly in the months leading up to the Restoration of Charles II. In their rhetoric, royalists not only embraced traditional cultural practices, they also connected their continuation with the survival of monarchy. Analyzing the politics surrounding popular disaffection and the politics of popular disaffection reveals that people's discontent played a significant role in creating fertile soil for the Restoration in 1660.
| Author | : Glenn Burgess |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2009-04-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137087978 |
Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work of a wide range of thinkers.
| Author | : David Finnegan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2016-02-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317002490 |
The essays in this collection explore a number of significant questions regarding the terms 'radical' and 'radicalism' in early modern English contexts. They investigate whether we can speak of a radical tradition, and whether radicalism was a local, national or transnational phenomenon. In so doing this volume examines the exchange of ideas and texts in the history of supposedly radical events, ideologies and movements (or moments). Once at the cutting edge of academic debate radicalism had, until very recently, fallen prey to historiographical trends as scholars increasingly turned their attention to more mainstream experiences or reactionary forces. While acknowledging the importance of those perspectives, Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English radicalism in context offers a reconsideration of the place of radicalism within the early modern period. It sets out to examine the subject in original and exciting ways by adopting distinctively new and broader perspectives. Among the crucial issues addressed are problems of definition and how meanings can evolve; context; print culture; language and interpretative techniques; literary forms and rhetorical strategies that conveyed, or deliberately disguised, subversive meanings; and the existence of a single, continuous English radical tradition. Taken together the essays in this collection offer a timely reassessment of the subject, reflecting the latest research on the theme of seventeenth-century English radicalism as well as offering some indications of the phenomenon's transnational contexts. Indeed, there is a sense here of the complexity and variety of the subject although much work still remains to be done on radicals and radicalism - both in early modern England and especially beyond.
| Author | : Carla Gardina Pestana |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674042077 |
Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of freeborn English men, making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.
| Author | : Colin Haydon |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Anti-Catholicism |
| ISBN | : 9780719028595 |
This study of anti-Catholicism in 18th-century England demonstrates that the "no Popery" sentiment was a potent force under the first three Georges and was, on occasions, manifested in the hostility of significant sections of the middle and upper ranks of society, as well as the populace at large.
| Author | : John Walter |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199605599 |
A new take on the origins of the English civil war and English Revolution, offering the first full study of the Protestation, the first state oath to be issued under parliamentary authority, swearing loyalty to king and country, but with the radical outcome of offering a political voice to those hitherto excluded by class, age, or gender.
| Author | : Louise Fargo Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Baptists |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jason Peacey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351910302 |
The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the printing and publishing industry, which between 1640 and 1660 produced a vast number of tracts and pamphlets on a bewildering variety of subjects. Many of these where of a highly political nature, the publication of which would have been unthinkable just a few years before. Whilst scholars have long recognised the importance of these publications, and have studied in depth what was written in them, much less work has been done on why they were produced. In this book Dr Peacey first highlights the different dynamics at work in the conception, publication and distribution of polemical works, and then pulls the strands together to study them against the wider political context. In so doing he provides a more complete understanding of the relationship between political events and literary and intellectual prose in an era of unrest and upheaval. By incorporating into the political history of the period some of the approaches utilized by scholars of book history, this study reveals the heightened importance of print in both the lives of members of the political nation and the minds of the political elite in the civil wars and Interregnum. Furthermore, it demonstrates both the existence and prevalence of print propaganda with which politicians became associated, and traces the processes by which it came to be produced, the means of detecting its existence, the ways in which politicians involved themselves in its production, the uses to which it was put, and the relationships between politicians and propagandists.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Richard Braverman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1993-07-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521356206 |
A study of sexual politics in literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
