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This book offers a fresh and rounded perspective on the English Revolution of the 1640s. It uses detailed evidence to show how the economic requirement for parliament's services underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working 'discourse' of ideas about the status of representative forms
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monografia Rebiun28580342 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28580342 m o d | cr -n--------- 151229s2008 xxk| o |||| 0|eng d 1-281-91484-3 9786611914844 0-230-58988-X 10.1057/9780230589889 doi UAM 991008060321504211 UCAR 991008411646604213 eng e-uk-en HBJD1 bicssc HIS015000 bisacsh 942.062 Yerby, G. author. aut. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut People and Parliament electronic resource] Representative Rights and the English Revolution by G. Yerby 1st ed. 2008 London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2008 London London Palgrave Macmillan UK Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 1 online resource (334 p.) 1 online resource (334 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Pasts and Presents; 2 Legislative Beginnings: 1603-1610; 3 The Constitutional Dimension; 4 The Foreign Policy Dimension; 5 Legislative Ambitions Frustrated: 1614-1640; 6 The Vacuum Filled: The Triennial Act of 1641; 7 Politics and Religion: The Balance of Motivation; 8 Statute Law and Civil War: "A Right That Induced Men to Fight"; 9 The Sovereignty of Parliament; 10 Epilogue: "A Parliamentary Man"; Appendix 1: Thomas Hobbes and the Idea of the Representative Appendix 2: Dartmouth's Parliamentary Diary from the Impositions Debate of 1610Notes; Bibliography; Index This book offers a fresh and rounded perspective on the English Revolution of the 1640s. It uses detailed evidence to show how the economic requirement for parliament's services underpinned a demand for political change. It suggests that this took shape through a working 'discourse' of ideas about the status of representative forms English Great Britain—History World politics Political science Europe—History—1492- Democracy History of Britain and Ireland Political History Political Science History of Early Modern Europe Democracy 1-349-36303-0 0-230-55322-2