The Debate on the English Revolution

by Richardson, R. C.

• ISBN13: 9780719047404
• ISBN10: 0719047404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-29
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

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.

Author Biography

R.C. Richardson is Head of History at King Alfred's University College, Winchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Characteristics of the Debate

The Seventeenth Century: The Debate Begins

The Eighteenth Century: The Political Uses of History

The French Revolution and English History

The Nineteenth Century: From Party Polemics to Academic History

The Twentieth Century: The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance and its Development

The Twentieth Century: Social Interpretations of Revolution

The Twentieth Century: Social Complexities

The Twentieth Century: Local and Regional Studies

The Twentieth Century: 'History from Below'

The Twentieth Century: Politics, Political Culture, Revisionism

The Twentieth Century: Reverberations

Further Reading

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