During the drive home from a doctor's appointment (about which I'll write more later), I listened to the podcast of a BBC In Our Time show about 17th-century print culture in England and how the rise of literacy and printed material affected the (English) Civil War.
segnbora will probably enjoy listening to the show, which is available
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For a general introduction, I've always liked Christoper Hill:
The World Turned Upside Down or Puritanism and Revolution : Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century, both by Christopher Hill.
English Troubles in a European Context, by Jonathan Scott.
Heading into a more esoteric realm, you might try
Joyce Appleby's Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England (1978) which tries to look at the larger intellectual context for a number of notions that worked themselves out in economic & political terms.
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And... wow! Thanks! Do you have any books to recommend? (Maybe you should write one, if you haven't already!)
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No, I don't have any particular books. What I know comes from long-forgotten snippets of history classes, from picking up incidental stuff from prefaces and footnotes of contemporary stuff (I have a professional interest in 17th century political philosophy), from combing Wikipedia and from picking [Noung]'s brain.
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