Debates in Stuart History

ISBN-13: 9781403935892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 239 str.

Ronald Hutton;Hutton

Opis

In this essential introduction to the writing of Stuart history, Ronald Hutton provides a clear and authoritative guide to both the current condition of the discipline and its historiography. Hutton helps students to understand some of the key recent debates and shows them how to set their reading in context. He also provides a new sense of why historians of the Stuart period, both collectively and individually, perceive the past in particular ways, and shows how these perceptions alter over time.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Revisionism.- The Great Civil War.- The New Framework for Early Stuart Studies.- Oliver Cromwell.- Charles II.- The Glorious Revolution.- Conclusion.- Index.

O autorze

RONALD HUTTON is Professor of History at Bristol University. He writes on subjects as diverse as witchcraft and the British Republic, and was recently described by the TLS as 'one of the liveliest and most wide-ranging English historians'.

Blurb

In this essential introduction to the study of Stuart history, Ronald Hutton provides a clear and authoritative guide to the main themes of the subject, as well as to the current condition of the discipline and its historiography.
Ideal for both students and teachers, Debates in Stuart History:
* helps students to understand key recent issues and debates and shows how to set their reading in context
* provides a new sense of why historians of the Stuart period, both collectively and individually, perceive the past in particular ways
* shows how these perceptions alter over time
* aids our understanding of historians, and of the ways in which they use and interpret data