England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context

ISBN-13: 9780521423342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 560 str.

Jonathan Scott

Opis

Seventeenth-century English history is known best for "the English Civil War" and "the English Revolution." This highly original and wide-ranging study analyzes and explains both of these major historical events, and others, by setting them in their wider contexts in relation to political instability across the century; in relation to the history of religions and political ideas; and in relation to contemporary European events.

Recenzje

' … a provocative and very valuable book, which tackles a large subject and sets the complicated history of Britain and Europe in the seventeenth century in a fresh and clear framework. … England's Troubles should stimulate readers to reexamine the challenges presented to them by events in their own times and by the institutions that the past has bequeathed to them.' Royal Stuart Review

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: experience other than our own; 1. The shape of the seventeenth century; Part I. England's Troubles, 1618–89: Political Instability: 2. Taking contemporary belief seriously; 3. The unreformed polity; 4. Reformation politics (1) 1618–41; 5. Counter-reformation England; 6. Reformation politics (2) 1637–6; 7. Restoration memory; 8. Restoration crisis 1678–83; 9. Invasion 1688–9; Part II. The English Revolution 1640–89: Radical Imagination: 10. The shape of the English Revolution; 11. Radical reformation (1): the power of love; 12. Radical reformation (2): outward bondage; 13. Radical renaissance (1): after monarchy; 14. Radical renaissance (2): republican moral philosophy and the politics of settlement; 15. Radical restoration (1): the subjected plaine; 16. Radical restoration (2): the old cause; Part III. Restoration 1660–1702: Reconstruction and Statebuilding: 17. Restoration process; 18. First restoration 1660–78; 19. 'Second Restauration' 1679–85; 20. Third restoration 1688–94; 21. Anglo-Dutch statebuilding.