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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'This re-interpretation of the Triennial Act of 1641 is important. It dispels some persistently repeated misunderstandings, and should lead to a reassessment of the initial aims of the Long Parliament' - Norah Carlin, author of The Causes of the English Civil War

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GEORGE YERBY has worked as an historical researcher since taking his degree at Birkbeck, London, UK, in 1986. He has contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. People and Parliament is his first book, and draws on twenty years' research into the local and political background of the Civil War Period.

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Book Title: People and Parliament
Book Subtitle: Representative Rights and the English Revolution
Authors: George Yerby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589889
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55322-4Published: 17 January 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36303-2Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58988-9Published: 17 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 319
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, Political Science, History of Early Modern Europe, Democracy

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