Author: ArmyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
A warning seriously offered to the officers of the army, and others in power
Author: ArmyCatalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Inventing a Republic
Author: Sean KelseyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804731157
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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 and ceremonial forms through which authority had traditionally been expressed and exercised. Finally, the author argues that the Commonwealth regime was not in fact the corrupt administrative failure that it was alleged to have been by its enemies and later by many historians; instead the republican experiment was brought down by a faction no less intent on enjoying the spoils of the Stuart regime, anxious about the Commonwealth’s successes rather than alarmed by its failures. The English revolution demolished almost all political landmarks, and this book describes in vivid detail how the new republican state successfully restored the dignity of civilian government by expressing its authority through a calculated range of imagery and symbolism. Individual chapters focus on the occupation and revival of the abandoned royal palace of Whitehall by members of the new regime; the public spectacle mounted to celebrate its military victories; the ritual and ceremony with which it dignified everyday politics; and the invention of a new state iconography to replace familiar forms such as the crown and the royal seal. These efforts of the Republic to graft its own symbols and rhetoric onto the familiar political culture of the monarchical Stuart state secured an increasingly broad degree of support and, indeed, enthusiasm from its citizens. However, the steady growth of the regime’s stability and prestige was seen by the army as a threat to its power, and in 1653 they acted, lest the Republic continue to harden into an unassailable form.
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts Relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Thomason CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts Relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661 ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Thomason CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
English Literature & Printing from the 15th to the 18th Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Protestantism and Patriotism
Author: Steven C. A. PincusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A detailed study of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars and the ideological contexts in which they were fought.
Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur Catalogus
Author: American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
English Literature and History from the 15th to the 18th Century
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description