Revolution In English History

Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191667268

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The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick Pdf

This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context.

Author : Thomas Hill Green
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547085669

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Four Lectures on the English Revolution by Thomas Hill Green Pdf

Though the book is entitled English Revolution, it covers more than just the eras often attributed to the term. As a matter of fact, the book is instead a collection of lectures on several subjects relating to sudden upheaval in English society, including the English Reformation era alongside the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period. The lecturer and author of the book is an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement - Thomas Hill Green.

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719047404

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The Debate on the English Revolution by R. C. Richardson Pdf

This firmly established essential guide to the literature in the field appears here in a much revised third edition. New chapters are included on twentieth-century historians’ treatments of social complexities, politics, political culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution’s unstoppable reverberations. All the other chapters have been amended and recast to take account of recent publications. The book provides a searching re-examination of why the English Revolution remains such a provocatively controversial subject and analyzes the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Clarendon, Hume, Macaulay, Gardiner, Tawney, Hill, and the present-day revisionists are given extended treatment, while discussion of the work of numerous other historians is integrated into a coherent, informative and immensely readable survey.

Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014867209

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Revolutions in English History by Robert Vaughan Pdf

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447271703

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Civil War by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant – warts and all – portrayal of Charles's nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood', the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.

Author : Robert Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1061950615

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Revolution in English History by Robert Vaughan Pdf

Author : Henry Lazarus
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101069162616

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The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century by Henry Lazarus Pdf

Author : Eliga H. Gould
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899878

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The Persistence of Empire by Eliga H. Gould Pdf

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N11652798

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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume Pdf

Author : Guizot (M., François)
Publisher : London : G. Bell
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:32000004576676

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History of the English Revolution of 1640 by Guizot (M., François) Pdf

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588679

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Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution - Revisited by Christopher Hill Pdf

This is a revised edition of Christopher Hill's classic and ground-breaking examination of the motivations behind the English Revolution and Civil War, first published in 1965. In addition to the text of the original, Dr Hill provides thirteen new chapters which take account of other publications since the first edition, bringing his work up-to-date in a stimulating and enjoyable way. This book poses the problem of how, after centuries of rule by King, lords, and bishops, when the thinking of all was dominated by the established church, English men and women found the courage to revolt against Charles I, abolish bishops, and execute the king in the name of his people. The far-reaching effects and the novelty of what was achieved should not be underestimated - the first legalized regicide, rather than an assassination; the formal establishment of some degree of religious toleration; Parliament taking effective control of finance and foreign policy on behalf of gentry and merchants, thus guaranteeing the finance necessary to make England the world's leading naval power; abolition of the Church's prerogative courts (confirming gentry control at a local level); and the abolition of feudal tenures, which made possible first the agricultural and then the industrial revolution. Christopher Hill examines the intellectual forces which helped to prepare minds for a revolution that was much more than the religious wars and revolts which had gone before, and which became the precedent for the great revolutionary upheavals of the future.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136754883

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The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 by Lawrence Stone Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509811489

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Revolution by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was – again – at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000870121

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A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution by Perez Zagorin Pdf

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the English revolution – a period when modern democratic ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645, when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution’s wider implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to power, is here studied in detail.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351732598

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The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 by Lawrence Stone Pdf

Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century, Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability. The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and, as Stone elegantly argues, one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.