Synopses & Reviews
Under the influence of "revisionist" writings the history of the English Civil War has splintered. This is not to say that there was once consensus on how the revolution should be characterized or interpreted, but revisionism has now carved out different aspects of historical experience--such as economic, social, political, religious, and cultural--that once tended to be bound together. This book does not attempt to turn back the clock, nor to recreate what was undoubtedly in part a false coherence. But it does in fact suggest ways in which some of the starker discontinuities should be challenged. The editors maintain that reconnections should be made regarding the causes, course, and impact of the Civil War, and the pieces in this book aim to do so without without losing sight of the complexity of the issues at hand. Moreover, these articles afford some of the most stimulating writing on this topic to appear in the last twenty-five years.
About the Author
Paul Abela is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I Politics: Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-1629
The emergence of adversary politics in the Long Parliament
The baronial context of the English civil war
The British problem and the English civil war
II Religion: Puritanism, Arminianism and counter-revolution
The religious context of the English civil war
Anti-popery: the structure of a prejudice
III Society and culture: The county community in a Stuart historiography
News and politics in early-seventeenth-century England
The king, the parliament and the localities during the English civil war
The chalk and the cheese: contrasts among the English clubmen
Order and disorder in the English revolution
From rebellion to revolution
Further reading
Index.
Contributors
Conrad Russell
Mark Kishlansky
J S A Adamson
Nicholas Tyacke
John Morrill
Peter Lake
Clive Holmes
Richard Cust
Ann Hughes
David Underdown
John Walter
David Wooton.