For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution - bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689. James II developed a modernization programme that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The post-revolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution - not the French Revolution - the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.
| ISBN | 0300115474 | | Pages | 672 | | ISBN13 | 9780300115475
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Yale University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1315 | | Imprint | Yale University Press | | Published in | New Haven | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture & History | | Publication date | 08 Sep 2009 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | 2009004607 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 941.067 | | Spine width (mm) | 42 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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| Pt. I | | Introductory | | |
| | | Introduction | | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | | The Unmaking of a Revolution | | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | | Rethinking Revolutions | | 30 |
| Pt. II | | Prerevolutionary England | | |
| Ch. 3 | | Going Dutch: English Society in 1685 | | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | | English Politics at the Accession of James II | | 91 |
| Ch. 5 | | The Ideology of Catholic Modernity | | 118 |
| Ch. 6 | | The Practice of Catholic Modernity | | 143 |
| Ch. 7 | | Resistance to Catholic Modernity | | 179 |
| Pt. III | | Revolution | | |
| Ch. 8 | | Popular Revolution | | 221 |
| Ch. 9 | | Violent Revolution | | 254 |
| Ch. 10 | | Divisive Revolution | | 278 |
| Pt. IV | | Revolutionary Transformation | | |
| Ch. 11 | | Revolution in Foreign Policy | | 305 |
| Ch. 12 | | Revolution in Political Economy | | 366 |
| Ch. 13 | | Revolution in the Church | | 400 |
| Pt. V | | Conclusion | | |
| Ch. 14 | | Assassination, Association, and the Consolidation of Revolution | | 437 |
| Ch. 15 | | Conclusion: The First Modern Revolution | | 474 |
| | | Abbreviations | | 487 |
| | | Notes | | 489 |
| | | Manuscripts Consulted | | 619 |
| | | Index | | 631 |
"A significant contribution to the scholarship of the period. . . . Pincus develops his analysis through lively writing informed by extensive primary-source research. . . . There is much to be said for Pincus''s approach, blending economic and political theory together with seemingly effortless ease in a well-written and highly readable account...In the end, there is every reason to think that his analysis of the events of late-seventeenth-century England will, for want of a better term, revolutionize our understanding of the period."--Scott Hendrix, "Canadian Journal of History"--Scott Hendrix "Canadian Journal of History "
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