Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Softcover

Clark, J.C. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521337100 ISBN 13: 9780521337106

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Synopsis

This iconoclastic and satirical book provides a radical reconstruction of the recent historiography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It creates an alliance between those revisionist historians who have rewritten the received account of the origins of the English Civil War and those historians who have been rethinking the Hanoverian era. Revolution and Rebellion is thus a companion volume to the author's English Society 1688-1832. The book counters the Marxist interpretation of the 1640s and the 'English Revolution' by developing our new understanding of the non-revolutionary nature of the world after 1660: it challenges the appropriateness of 'revolution' as a description of events like those of 1688, 1715, 1745, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution or the Reform Bill, drawing attention instead to the idea of 'rebellion'. This is the first book so to link English history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and it will be required reading for students and teachers of both eras.

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Book Description

This depiction of the non-revolutionary nature of politics, political ideology and social change in 1600 (and 1688, 1715, 1745) refutes the Marxist interpretation of the 1640s as the period of the "English Revolution."

About the Author

Jonathan Clark is the Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. He was formerly a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of a number of highly regarded books on early modern England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521337100
• ISBN 13: 9780521337106
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196