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This book uses the notion of the public sphere to produce a new
view of the history of England in the post-reformation period,
tracing its themes from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century.
The contributors, who are all leaders in their own fields, bring a
diverse range of approaches and types of material and analysis to
bear on the central theme. The book aims to put the results of some
of the most innovative and exciting work in the field before the
reader in accessible form. Each chapter can stand on its own and
represents a contribution to its own area of study and sub-period
as well as to the overall argument of the book. Approaching the
central questions raised by the book in different ways, and
reaching differing conclusions, the essays do not follow a single
line of argument, but rather show how a series of questions and
issues, organized around the topos of the public sphere, can make
this period look different. Politics, culture and religion all
feature prominently in the resulting analysis, which should be of
interest both to advanced undergraduate students of early modern
English history and literature as well as more advanced researchers
in those and related fields.
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the
influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's
founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining
question continues to divide the country's political parties:
Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of
American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been
invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government.
Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which
the Founders outlined the failures of the British imperial
government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760
had done too little to promote the prosperity of its American
subjects. Looking beyond the Declaration's frequently cited opening
paragraphs, Steve Pincus reveals how the document is actually a
blueprint for a government with extensive powers to promote and
protect the people's welfare. By examining the Declaration in the
context of British imperial debates, Pincus offers a nuanced
portrait of the Founders' intentions with profound political
implications for today.
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.
An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government. Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which the Founders outlined the failures of the British imperial government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760 had done too little to promote the prosperity of its American subjects. Looking beyond the Declaration's frequently cited opening paragraphs, Steve Pincus reveals how the document is actually a blueprint for a government with extensive powers to promote and protect the people's welfare. By examining the Declaration in the context of British imperial debates, Pincus offers a nuanced portrait of the Founders' intentions with profound political implications for today.
For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the
Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of
junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions
facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years
ago. What were the key political, economic and religious parameters
operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College's
founding? What was the religious scene like at the moment when the
Rev. Samson Occom of the Mohegan nation and the Rev. Eleazar
Wheelock of Connecticut, two men from very different backgrounds
whose improbable meeting occurred during the Great Awakening of the
early 1740s, set about establishing a new school in the northern
woods in the 1760s? How were the agendas of contemporaries
differently mediated by the religious beliefs with which they
acted, on the one hand, and the emerging thought world of political
economy, very broadly understood, on the other? These are among the
rich and variegated topics addressed in Dartmouth and the World,
which breaks the mold of the traditional commemorative volume.
A Nation Transformed is a major collection of essays by a mix of
young and eminent scholars of early modern English history,
literature, and political thought. The fruit of an intense
interdisciplinary two-day conference held at the Huntington
Library, California, it asks whether and in what ways the culture
and politics of early modern England was transformed by the second
half of the seventeenth century. In sharp contrast to those who
have emphasised continuity and the persistence of the ancien
regime, the contributors argue that England in 1700 was profoundly
different from what it had been in 1640. Essays in the volume deal
with changes in natural philosophy, literature, religion, politics,
political thought, and political economy. The insights offered
here, based on innovative research, will interest scholars and
students of early modern history, Renaissance and Augustan
literature, and historians of political thought.
A Nation Transformed highlights the ways in which England was transformed during the second half of the seventeenth century. In sharp contrast to those who have emphasized continuity and the persistence of the ancien régime, the contributors argue that England in 1700 was profoundly different from what it had been in 1640. Essays in the volume deal with changes in natural philosophy, literature, religion, politics, political thought, and political economy, each illuminating the ways in which early modern England became one of the first modern societies.
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