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Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvLawrence Stone

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Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century, Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability. The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and, as Stone elegantly argues, one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-27
Mått138 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt288 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Classics
Antal sidor202
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138700338

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Lawrence Stone (1919-1999) was one of the leading social and political historians of the post-1945 period. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1950, and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1963. From 1963 to1990 he was Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, also at Princeton, from 1969.

AcknowledgmentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition – Clare JacksonPrefacePreface to the second editionPart I HistoriographyChapter 1 Theories of revolutionChapter 2 The social origins of the English RevolutionPart II InterpretationChapter 3 The causes of the English Revolution Presuppositions The preconditions 1529-1629 The precipitants, 1629-39 The triggers, 1640-2 ConclusionChapter 4 Second thoughts in 1985Index

‘Much the best all-round analysis of the causes of the English Revolution that we have.’ Times Literary Supplement‘He was that rare person among the academic species, both a historians' historian and a popular one.' Michael Thompson, The Guardian‘Lawrence Stone belonged to a remarkable generation of British historians who dominated and defined their subject for nearly half a century, and which included Christopher Hill, G.R. Elton, Asa Briggs, J.H. Plumb, Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Thompson. They all wrote widely and well, and reached a large audience in universities and far beyond. But in many ways, Stone was the most creative - and the most controversial - of them all.’ David Cannadine, The Independent