R. Richardson

The debate on the English Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780719047404
• ISBN-10: 0719047404
• Artikelnr.: 22327622

Autorenporträt

R. C. Richardson is Head of History at King Alfred's University College, Winchester. His most recent publications are Images of Oliver Cromwell (1993) and The English Civil War: Local Aspects (1997)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the characteristics of the debate; 2. The seventeenth
century: the debate begins 3. The eighteenth century: the political uses of
history 4. The French Revolution and English history 5. The nineteenth
century: from party polemics to academic history 6. The twentieth century:
the nineteenth-century inheritance and its development 7. The twentieth
century: social interpretations of revolutions 8. The twentieth century:
social complexities 9. The twentieth century: local and regional studies
10. The twentieth century: 'history from below' 11. The twentieth century:
politics, political culture, revisionism 12. The twentieth century:
reverberations Further reading Index