Fenland Riots and the English Revolution
Author : Keith Lindley
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521651867
Book Description
This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes. The so-called Stour Valley riots have become accepted as the paradigm of class hostility, determining plebeian behaviour within the Revolution. An excercise in micro-history, the book questions this dominant reading by trying to understand the inter-related contexts of local responses to the political and religious counter-revolution of the 1630s and the confessional politics of the early 1640s. It explains both the outbreak of popular 'violence' and its ultimate containment in terms of a popular (and parliamentary) political culture that legitimised attacks on the political, but not the social, order. The book also advances a series of general arguments for reading crowd actions, and questions how the history of the English Revolution has been written.
The Nature of the English Revolution
Author : John Morrill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317895819
Book Description
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.
Fenland Riots and the English Revolution
Author : Keith Lindley
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The Debate on the English Revolution
Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719047404
Book Description
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 English Civil War 1640-1649
Author : Martyn Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1317880935
Book Description
The English Civil War (1642-53) is one of the most crucial periods in British history. Martyn Bennett introduces the reader to the main debates surrounding the Civil War which continue to be debated by historians. He considers the repercussions both on government and religion, of Parliament's failure to secure stability after the Royalist defeat in 1646, and argues that this opened the way for far more radical reforms. The book deals with the military campaigns in all four nations, placing the war in its full British and Irish context.
Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832
Author : John Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317897145
Book Description
John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder.
Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1136538836
Book Description
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.
Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution
Author : Jason Peacey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107044421
Book Description
This book assesses how print culture transformed the political nation, at the level of everyday political practices, habits and thought.
English Society
Author : Keith Wrightson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813532882
Book Description
"A brilliant and persuasive synthesis of the best recent work in all fields of seventeenth century English history."--Christopher Hill "A triumphant success . . . deserves to be widely read."--H. T. Dickinson "Conceived as an intellectual whole and vibrantly alive."--John Kenyon, The Observer English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and societal change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change. The book emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities, and the unevenness of the process of transition, to build up an overall interpretation of continuity and change. In this edition, Keith Wrightson provides a new introduction to set the book in its context and to reflect on recent research, together with an updated guide to further reading. Keith Wrightson is a professor of history at Yale University. His many books include Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain.
