Download or read book People and Parliament written by G. Yerby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.