Revolution Principles
Revolution Principles
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GBPThe period from 1680 to about 1720 was one of the most complex and difficult in the history of British politics, to contemporaries as well as to posterity. The parameters of political obligation were decisively shifted by the Revolution of 1688; statesmen and politicians had now to accustom themselves to the novelty of a parliament in session every year; Britain was almost continuously engaged in the most ambitious and expensive wars in her history to date; political parties were slow to form, and of doubtful repute when they did. Professor Kenyon's Ford Lectures, delivered in Oxford in 1976 and now published as a paperback for the first time, remain a standard account of the period. For this reissue, Professor Kenyon has written a new preface which discusses the book in the light of recent historiography.
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' … John Kenyon's powerful and ironic Ford lectures, Revolution Principles, a work of great distinction …'. New Society
'Kenyon's exposition will provide fuel for a score more of political studies, and his conclusion should keep us all busy for the rest of the century.' The American Historical Review
'The scholarship is impeccable, and the results are an important addition to current knowledge. Essential for any academic library.' Choice
Product details
August 1990Paperback
9780521386562
268 pages
216 × 140 × 15 mm
0.358kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Note
- 1. Introduction
- 2. By force or by miracle
- 3. The measures of submission
- 4. This skein of tangled principles
- 5. King Charle's head
- 6. The bloody flag
- 7. Revolution principles
- 8. Black and odious colours
- 9. The four last years
- 10. That triumphant appellation
- 11. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Addendum
- Index.
