The debate on the English Revolution is firmly established as an essential guide to the literature in its field and appears here in a much revised third edition. Three 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 analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Claredon, 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 readable survey.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Issues in Historiography
Publication Date:
29 October 1998
ISBN: 9780719047404
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Revolutionary, Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, European history
R. C. Richardson is Head of History at King Alfred's University College, Winchester. His most recent publications are Images of Oliver Cromwell (1993) and The English Civil War: Local Aspects (1997)
1. Introduction: the characteristics of the debate;
2. The seventeenth century: the debate begins
3. The eighteenth century: the political uses of history
4. The French Revolution and English history
5. The nineteenth century: from party polemics to academic history
6. The twentieth century: the nineteenth-century inheritance and its development
7. The twentieth century: social interpretations of revolutions
8. The twentieth century: social complexities
9. The twentieth century: local and regional studies
10. The twentieth century: 'history from below'
11. The twentieth century: politics, political culture, revisionism
12. The twentieth century: reverberations
Further reading
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