Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653

by Sean Kelsey

This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth--the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell's seizure of power in 1653.

It focuses particularly on the problem of how to legitimate governmental authority in the absence of a monarchy and in the absence of all the symbolic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731152
• ISBN13: 9780804731157
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"