The English Revolution c. 1590-1720
Subtitle: Politics, Religion and Communities (UCL/ Neale Series on British History)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: January 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780719077074
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Revolutions & coups; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain
Description: "Focusing on the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640- 60), this collection of essays also places it in the context of a long seventeenth century." "Leading experts in the field explore this theme with special reference to developments in politics, religion and society, at both national and local levels. The volume breaks decisively with recent historiography, in emphasising both the long-term nature and revolutionary implications of the seventeenth-century events in question. Features of the crisis include the growing challenge to the confessional state from within the ranks of Protestantism itself and the enlargement of the public sphere of politics, fuelled increasingly by the role of print, along with the painful emergence of a new style parliamentary monarchy and associated fiscal-military apparatus."--book jacket.