A Freeborn People

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of early modern history, A Freeborn People examines how the political cultures of the elite and of the common people intersected during the seventeenth century. David Underdown looks at politics at all social levels and is the first to investigate how it was affected by expectations about women's roles in politics. This dramatic reinterpretation of the Stuart period begins a new chapter in the continuing debate over the historical meaning of Britain's seventeenth-century revolutions.