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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

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 10/29/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719047404
      978-0719047404
      ISBN-10 0719047404
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      Historiography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

      Table of Contents

      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

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