The Debate on the English Revolution

The Debate on the English Revolution
Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719047404

This firmly established essential guide to the literature in the field appears here in a much revised third edition. 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 analyzes the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Clarendon, 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 and immensely readable survey.

The Debate on the English Revolution Revisited

The Debate on the English Revolution Revisited
Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

Dr Richardson explains why the English Revolution remains so controversial and examines how and why historians have approached the subject over the past centuries.

The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660

The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660
Author: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

What happens to the discourse of a political community when the ideological assumptions that underlie that discourse are challenged? This book looks at the interdependency between discourse and ideology by examining the petitions, published speeches and pamphlets of the English Revolution.

The Nature of the English Revolution

The Nature of the English Revolution
Author: John Morrill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317895827

John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its political sociology. Taken together, they offer a remarkably coherent account of the period as a whole.

The Putney Debates

The Putney Debates
Author: The Levellers
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1788731425

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history. Evolving from Oliver Cromwell's New Model army in Parliament's struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption in parliament, universal voting rights and religious toleration. This came to a head with the famous debates between the Levellers and Cromwell at St Mary's church in Putney, London. Renowned human-rights lawyer and author Geoffrey Robertson argues for the relevance of the Levellers' stand today, showing how they were the first Western radical democrats.

Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789-1802

Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789-1802
Author: Wil Verhoeven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107040191

This book explores the evolution of British identity and participatory politics in the 1790s. Wil Verhoeven argues that in the course of the French Revolution debate in Britain, the idea of "America" came to represent for the British people the choice between two diametrically opposed models of social justice and political participation. Yet the American Revolution controversy in the 1790s was by no means an isolated phenomenon. The controversy began with the American crisis debate of the 1760s and 1770s, which overlapped with a wider Enlightenment debate about transatlantic utopianism. All of these debates were based in the material world on the availability of vast quantities of cheap American land. Verhoeven investigates the relation that existed throughout the eighteenth century between American soil and the discourse of transatlantic utopianism: between America as a physical, geographical space, and "America" as a utopian/dystopian idea-image.

The debate on the French Revolution

The debate on the French Revolution
Author: Peter J. Davies
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526183692

This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so much that it was impossible to speak with certainty about any kind of new 'orthodoxy' at all. The fact that the decade and a half following the Bicentenary offered up its own hotchpotch of theorising merely confirmed this. The survey of writings presents a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, it focuses on those individuals who are generally perceived to be the 'major' or 'pre-eminent' figures within revolutionary historiography. A ‘history of the histories’, this book will be an ideal starting point for those students seeking to better-understand the French Revolution and its history.

Four Lectures on the English Revolution

Four Lectures on the English Revolution
Author: Thomas Hill Green
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2022-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

Though the book is entitled English Revolution, it covers more than just the eras often attributed to the term. As a matter of fact, the book is instead a collection of lectures on several subjects relating to sudden upheaval in English society, including the English Reformation era alongside the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period. The lecturer and author of the book is an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement - Thomas Hill Green.

The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited

The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843838184

New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.