Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers

by John Walter and John A. Walter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022703
• ISBN13: 9780521022705
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"