
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy
The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts
Boydell Press
Published on 20. June 2013
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-84383-816-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.
There has been an explosion of interest in the "Glorious" Revolution in recent years. Long regarded as the lesser of Britain's seventeenth-century revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of mid-century, itis now coming to be seen as a major transformative episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new light on the final crisis of the Stuart monarchy by re-examining the causes and implications of the dynastic shift of 1688-9 from a broad chronological, intellectual and geographical perspective.
Comprising eleven essays by specialists in the field, it ranges from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and covers not just England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the Atlantic and European contexts. Covering high politics and low politics, Tory and Whig political thought, and the experiences of both Catholics and Protestants, it ranges from protest and resistance to Jacobitism and counter-revolution and even offers an evaluation of British attitudestowards slavery. Written in a lively and engaging style and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, it combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.
TIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at Brown University.
STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in the History of Early Modern England at Durham University.
Contributors: Toby Barnard, Tony Claydon, John Gibney, Lionel K.J. Glassey, Gabriel Glickman, Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, John Marshall, Alasdair Raffe, Owen Stanwood, Stephen Taylor
There has been an explosion of interest in the "Glorious" Revolution in recent years. Long regarded as the lesser of Britain's seventeenth-century revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of mid-century, itis now coming to be seen as a major transformative episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new light on the final crisis of the Stuart monarchy by re-examining the causes and implications of the dynastic shift of 1688-9 from a broad chronological, intellectual and geographical perspective.
Comprising eleven essays by specialists in the field, it ranges from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and covers not just England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the Atlantic and European contexts. Covering high politics and low politics, Tory and Whig political thought, and the experiences of both Catholics and Protestants, it ranges from protest and resistance to Jacobitism and counter-revolution and even offers an evaluation of British attitudestowards slavery. Written in a lively and engaging style and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, it combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.
TIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at Brown University.
STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in the History of Early Modern England at Durham University.
Contributors: Toby Barnard, Tony Claydon, John Gibney, Lionel K.J. Glassey, Gabriel Glickman, Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, John Marshall, Alasdair Raffe, Owen Stanwood, Stephen Taylor
Reviews / Votes
Harris and Taylor have produced an exceptionally fine collection with remarkable cohesion that helps to establish, in no small way, a new paradigm for studying 'the Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy. * THE HISTORIAN * The essays in this excellent collection are all written to a uniformly high standard of scholarship and clarity and should be both instructive and entertaining reading to those interested in gaining a perspective on the most recent work being done on the period and events so central to the history of the Huguenot diaspora. * HUGUENOT SOCIETY JOURNAL * [P]romises to provide new insights on the final crisis of the last wholly British ruling dynasty. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
661 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84383-816-6 (9781843838166)
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The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts
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The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts
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Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.
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Content
In Search of the Mot Juste: Characterizations of the Revolution of 1688-1689 - Lionel K. J. Glassey
The Damning of King Monmouth: Pulpit Toryism in the Reign of James II - Mark A Goldie
Whig Thought and the Revolution of 1688-91 -
The Restoration, the Revolution and the Failure of Episcopacy in Scotland - Alasdair Raffe
Scotland under Charles II and James II and VII: In Search of the British Causes of the Glorious Revolution - Tim Harris
Ireland's Restoration Crisis - John Gibney
Ireland, 1688-91 - Toby C Barnard
Rumours and Rebellions in the English Atlantic World, 1688-89 - Owen Stanwood
The Revolution in Foreign Policy, 1688-1713 - Tony Claydon
Political Conflict and the Memory of the Revolution 1689-1745 - Gabriel Glickman
Afterword: State Formation, Political Stability and the Revolution of 1688 - Stephen Taylor
The Damning of King Monmouth: Pulpit Toryism in the Reign of James II - Mark A Goldie
Whig Thought and the Revolution of 1688-91 -
The Restoration, the Revolution and the Failure of Episcopacy in Scotland - Alasdair Raffe
Scotland under Charles II and James II and VII: In Search of the British Causes of the Glorious Revolution - Tim Harris
Ireland's Restoration Crisis - John Gibney
Ireland, 1688-91 - Toby C Barnard
Rumours and Rebellions in the English Atlantic World, 1688-89 - Owen Stanwood
The Revolution in Foreign Policy, 1688-1713 - Tony Claydon
Political Conflict and the Memory of the Revolution 1689-1745 - Gabriel Glickman
Afterword: State Formation, Political Stability and the Revolution of 1688 - Stephen Taylor