The English People and the English Revolution is a study of the decisive role played by the common people of England, and especially the London crowd, in precipitating the outbreak of the Civil War and thereafter in continuing the revolution. More often that is realised, says Brian Manning, the initiative was held not by the ruling gentry, but by the commons, led by 'people of the middle sort' and motivated by economic frustration and class hatred.
This book has a point to make about the nature of class relations in the seventeenth century and the economic causes of the Civil War, and in doing so it provides us with a magnificent picture of the excitement and tumult, misery and tragedy, of one of the most important moments in our history.
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