The Debate On The English Revolution

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014503901

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

Dr Richardson explains why the English Revolution remains so controversial and examines how and why historians have approached the subject over the past centuries.

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0416817602

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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 : Wil Verhoeven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040199

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Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789-1802 by Wil Verhoeven Pdf

This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of "America" came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and "America" as a utopian/dystopian idea-image.

Author : Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English prose literature
ISBN : UOM:39076001140065

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The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660 by Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Pdf

What happens to the discourse of a political community when the ideological assumptions that underlie that discourse are challenged? This book looks at the interdependency between discourse and ideology by examining the petitions, published speeches and pamphlets of the English Revolution.

Author : John Morrill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317895824

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The Nature of the English Revolution by John Morrill Pdf

John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its political sociology. Taken together, they offer a remarkably coherent account of the period as a whole.

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122864312

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The Debate on the French Revolution by Peter Davies Pdf

This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so much that it was impossible to speak with certainty about any kind of new 'orthodoxy' at all. The fact that the decade and a half following the Bicentenary offered up its own hotchpotch of theorising merely confirmed this. The survey of writings presents a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, it focuses on those individuals who are generally perceived to be the 'major' or 'pre-eminent' figures within revolutionary historiography. A 'history of the histories', this book will be an ideal starting point for those students seeking to better-understand the French Revolution and its history.

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : France
ISBN : IND:30000035058456

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The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789-1800 by Alfred Cobban Pdf

Author : Stephen Taylor,Grant Tapsell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838180

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The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited by Stephen Taylor,Grant Tapsell Pdf

New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.

Author : Newton Key,Robert Bucholz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405162760

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Sources and Debates in English History, 1485 - 1714 by Newton Key,Robert Bucholz Pdf

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-Stuart documents and illustrations, as well as extensive bibliographies and research and discussion guides. New edition contains 50 new documents, more explanatory text, illustrations, biographical background, and study questions Wide range of documents, from both manuscript and print sources, and from transcripts of private and public life Editorial material introduces students to the critical context; chapter bibliographies and questions allow ready integration into classroom, and research and source analysis assignments. Bibliography of Historians’ Debates with the latest articles and essays Accompanies the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714 Click here for more discussion and debate on the authors’ blogspot: http://earlymodernengland.blogspot.com/ [Wiley disclaims all responsibility and liability for the content of any third-party websites that can be linked to from this website. Users assume sole responsibility for accessing third-party websites and the use of any content appearing on such websites. Any views expressed in such websites are the views of the authors of the content appearing on those websites and not the views of Wiley or its affiliates, nor do they in any way represent an endorsement by Wiley or its affiliates.]

Author : The Levellers
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788731416

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The Putney Debates by The Levellers Pdf

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

Author : Sarah Mortimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139486293

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Reason and Religion in the English Revolution by Sarah Mortimer Pdf

This book provides a significant rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution, by integrating them into broader European discussions about Christianity and civil society. Sarah Mortimer reveals the extent to which these discussions were shaped by the writing of the Socinians, an extremely influential group of heterodox writers. She provides the first treatment of Socinianism in England for over fifty years, demonstrating the interplay between theological ideas and political events in this period as well as the strong intellectual connections between England and Europe. Royalists used Socinian ideas to defend royal authority and the episcopal Church of England from both Parliamentarians and Thomas Hobbes. But Socinianism was also vigorously denounced and, after the Civil Wars, this attack on Socinianism was central to efforts to build a church under Cromwell and to provide toleration. The final chapters provide a new account of the religious settlement of the 1650s.

Author : Rachel Foxley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112088

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The Levellers by Rachel Foxley Pdf

The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.

Author : Ann Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136642494

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Gender and the English Revolution by Ann Hughes Pdf

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts of masculinity and femininity were called into question by the war and the trial and execution of an anointed King. Ann Hughes combines discussion of the activities of women in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution, with a pioneering analysis of how male political identities were fractured by civil war. Traditional parallels and analogies between marriage, the family and the state were shaken, and rival understandings of sexuality, manliness, effeminacy and womanliness were deployed in political debate. In a historiography dominated by military or political approaches, Gender and the English Revolution reveals the importance of gender in understanding the events in England during the 1640s and 1650s. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, feminism, gender or British History.

Author : Michael Braddick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192524768

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The Common Freedom of the People by Michael Braddick Pdf

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought important legal battles for the rights to remain silent, to open trial, and to trial by his peers. He was twice acquitted by juries in very public trials, but nonetheless spent the bulk of his adult life in prison or exile. He is best known, however, as the most prominent of the Levellers, who campaigned for a government based on popular sovereignty two centuries before the advent of mass representative democracies in Europe. Michael Braddick explores the extraordinary and dramatic life of 'Freeborn John': how his experience of political activism sharpened and clarified his ideas, leading him to articulate bracingly radical views; and the changes in English society that made such a career possible. Without land, established profession, or public office, successive governments found him sufficiently alarming to be worth imprisoning, sending into exile, and putting on trial for his life. Above all, through his story, we can explore the life not just of John Lilburne, but of revolutionary England itself — and of ideas fundamental to the radical, democratic, libertarian, and constitutional traditions, both in Britain and the USA.