1688 : the first modern revolution / Steve Pincus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pincus, Steven C. A.

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688.

Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688--Historiography.

Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (704 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution-bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689.James II developed a modernization program that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution-not the French Revolution-the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Map

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. The Unmaking of a Revolution

CHAPTER TWO. Rethinking Revolutions

CHAPTER THREE. Going Dutch: English Society in 1685

CHAPTER FOUR. English Politics at the Accession of James II

CHAPTER FIVE. The Ideology of Catholic Modernity

CHAPTER SIX. The Practice of Catholic Modernity

CHAPTER SEVEN. Resistance to Catholic Modernization

CHAPTER EIGHT. Popular Revolution

CHAPTER NINE. Violent Revolution

CHAPTER TEN. Divisive Revolution

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Revolution in Foreign Policy

CHAPTER TWELVE. Revolution in Political Economy

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Revolution in the Church

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Assassination, Association, and the Consolidation of Revolution

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Conclusion The First Modern Revolution

Abbreviations

Notes

Manuscripts Consulted

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35260-1

9786612352607

0-300-15605-7

OCLC:

593239844