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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scott, Jonathan, 1958- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2000.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38506543*spi
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  • 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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