Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred
years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that
it-not the French Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution
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.
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