Format:
1 online resource (560 pages)
ISBN:
9780511150494
Content:
A broad interpretation of the events and beliefs of seventeenth-century England, first published in 2000.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: experience other than our own -- ALL HISTORY RESTS UPON ANALYTICAL ASSUMPTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE MADE EXPLICIT -- THE SHAPE OF THE ANALYSIS: THREE PROCESSES -- THE CONTEXT OF TIME: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- THE CONTEXT OF SPACE: NATIONALITY AND MODERNITY -- HISTORY AND MEMORY -- 1 The shape of the seventeenth century -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BROKEN MIRROR -- TIME: THE UNITY OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EXPERIENCE -- SPACE: THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- EVENTS AND IDEAS: THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- CONCLUSION -- PART I England's troubles 1618-89: political instability -- 2 Taking contemporary belief seriously -- INTRODUCTION: BEHIND THE VEIL OF RESTORATION -- POLITICAL INSTABILITY -- PILOT ERROR OR MECHANICAL FAILURE? -- CONTEXTS AND CAUSES -- THE STRUGGLE FOR PARLIAMENTS -- THE STRUGGLE FOR ROYAL POWER -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The unreformed polity -- INTRODUCTION: RESTORING THE SENSE OF POSSIBILITY -- MEDIEVAL SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND -- RENAISSANCE ENGLAND: A MONARCHICAL REPUBLIC? -- EUROPEAN STATEBUILDING -- THE BLOODY CITY -- 4 Reformation politics (1): 1618-41 -- INTRODUCTION: REFORMATION POLITICS -- THREE DOCUMENTS 1621-41 -- HABSBURG ATTITUDES -- CAROLINE DISHONOUR -- THE FIRST CRISIS OF PARLIAMENTS 1625-9 -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Counter-reformation England -- CAROLINE STATEBUILDING -- THE PEACE OF SILENCE -- CAROLINE RELIGIOUS POLICY -- COUNTER-REFORMATION ENGLAND -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Reformation politics (2): 1637-60 -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFENCE OF THE REFORMATION (THE SCOTS REBELLION) -- FURTHER REFORMATION (ENGLISH POLARISATION 1640-6) -- RADICAL REFORMATION 1646-9 -- INTERREGNUM -- 7 Restoration memory -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME: RESTORATION MEMORY -- SPACE: THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- FEAR OF POPERY: 'THE PLOT REVIV'D' -- FEAR FOR MONARCHY: CHARLES II AND FRANCE.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521411929
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521411929
Additional Edition:
Print version England's Troubles : Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=201844
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