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

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

Kelsey, Sean

Hardcover

Series: Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain

British History

ISBN10: 0804731152
ISBN13: 9780804731157
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.54
Language: English

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.

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