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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.
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.
*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021,
AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very
un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never
look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A
ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English
history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was
known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn
apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal
collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English
history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a
nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic
with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic
Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were
seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars,
regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the
floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother,
James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch
army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in
many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by
devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of
London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes
brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied
foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of
the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious
Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular
reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.
The first modern account of the advancement of political and
religious ideas in Scotland in the years between the Restoration of
Charles II and the collapse of royal authority under James VII and
II. In the twilight years of Scottish independence, the Restoration
period witnessed both the triumph of Stuart absolutism and the
radical Covenanting resistance of the "Killing Times" immortalised
in presbyterian memory. This is thefirst account of this
fascinating and dramatic period in Scottish history. It begins with
the widespread popular royalism that acclaimed Charles II's return
to power in 1660 and concludes by examining the collapse of royal
authority that occurred under his brother, James VII & II, and
the events of the Williamite Revolution of 1688-90. In
reconstructing the world of late-seventeenth century Scotland, this
book draws on an extensive range of printed and manuscript sources,
the majority of which have never been used by historians before.
Amidst current interest in Scottish political and parliamentary
history before 1707, this book emphasises the dynamic and
characteristic cosmopolitanism of Restoration intellectual culture
as revealed from a range of national, British and Continental
perspectives. In doing so, it challenges numerous historiographical
orthodoxies, and modifies conventional understanding of
pre-Enlightenment Scotland. CLARE JACKSON lectures in the history
of political thought at the University of Cambridge.
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert
accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Charles II has
always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings -
both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless
portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of
lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his
own many years of exile made him a guarded, curious, unusually
self-conscious ruler. He lived through some of the most striking
events in the national history - from the Civil Wars to the Great
Plague, from the Fire of London to the wars with the Dutch. Clare
Jackson's marvellous book takes full advantage of its irrepressible
subject.
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