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9780300171433

1688 : The First Modern Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300171433

  • ISBN10:

    0300171439

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2011-02-22
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 16881689 as an un-revolutionary revolutionbloodless, 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 16881689. James II developed a modernization program 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 postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolutionnot the French Revolutionthe 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.

Author Biography

Steve Pincus is professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of Protestantism and Patriotism and England's Glorious Revolution. He lives in New Haven, CT.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductory
Introductionp. 3
The Unmaking of a Revolutionp. 11
Rethinking Revolutionsp. 30
Prerevolutionary England
Going Dutch: English Society in 1685p. 49
English Politics at the Accession of James IIp. 91
The Ideology of Catholic Modernityp. 118
The Practice of Catholic Modernityp. 143
Resistance to Catholic Modernityp. 179
Revolution
Popular Revolutionp. 221
Violent Revolutionp. 254
Divisive Revolutionp. 278
Revolutionary Transformation
Revolution in Foreign Policyp. 305
Revolution in Political Economyp. 366
Revolution in the Churchp. 400
Conclusion
Assassination, Association, and the Consolidation of Revolutionp. 437
Conclusion: The First Modern Revoludonp. 474
Abbreviationsp. 487
Notesp. 489
Manuscripts Consultedp. 619
Indexp. 631
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