A freeborn people : politics and the nation in seventeenth-century England / David Underdown
Oxford : Clarendon, 1996. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405146
ISBN: 0198206127
Physical description; xi, 174 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; First given as the Ford lectures, Oxford, 1992. Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-165) and index. Contents; 1. Introduction: Competing Narratives of the Stuart Period -- 2. 'Itching after popularitie': Gentry Politics Before 1640 -- 3. Custom and Inversion: Popular Politics Before 1640 -- 4. Liberty and Property: The Political Nation and the English Revolution -- 5. The Man in the Moon: Loyalty and Libel in Popular Politics, 1640-1660 -- 6. The Political Nation After the Restoration. Subjects; Social classes England History 17th century. Nationalism England History 17th century. Civilization. Nationalism. Politics and government.
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