England's troubles seventeenth-century English political instability in European context
In this study, the author argues that 17th-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive, the second was creative, and the third was reconstructive.
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38506543*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- FEAR FOR PARLIAMENTS: ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT
- CONCLUSION
- 8 Restoration crisis 1678 ... 83
- INTRODUCTION: THE UNRAVELLING
- POPERY AND ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT (JANUARY ... JULY 1679)
- POLARISATION (THE LONG PROROGATION 1679 ... 80)
- CONFRONTATION (OCTOBER 1680 ... APRIL 1681)
- THE SELF-DEFENCE OF PROTESTANTS 1681 ... 3
- 9 Invasion 1688 ... 9
- INTRODUCTION: THREE PROCESSES
- DOMESTIC CONTEXT
- INTERVENTION
- COLLABORATION
- THE 'OLD CAUSE'
- PART II The English revolution 1640 ... 89: radical imagination
- 10 The shape of the English revolution
- INTRODUCTION: THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
- RADICALS, HAVING LAIN DOWN, GETTING UP REFRESHED
- CLOUD WITHOUT RAIN
- THE SHAPE OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
- INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL CONTEXTS
- THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
- 11 Radical reformation (1): the power of love
- INTRODUCTION
- RADICAL REFORMATION
- 'LEVELLERS': PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY
- 'DIGGERS': WINSTANLEY AND COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY
- 'RANTERS': ABIEZER COPPE AND RADICAL CHARITY
- QUAKERISM: COMMUNITY
- REFORMATION OF MANNERS
- 12 Radical reformation (2): outward bondage
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