1688 : the first modern revolution /
Historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution--bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. He demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Serier: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=302177 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- The unmaking of a modern revolution
- Rethinking revolutions
- Going Dutch: the transformation of English society
- English politics at the accession of James II
- The ideology of Catholic modernity
- The practice of Catholic modernity
- Resistance to Catholic modernity
- Popular revolution
- Violent revolution
- Divisive revolution
- Revolution in foreign policy
- Revolution in political economy
- Revolution in the church
- Conclusion
- Assassination, association, and the consolidation of revolution
- Conclusion: the first modern revolution.