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Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 e-bog
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What holds these essays together is the rejection of the idea of 'the birth of the modern world'. England before the Civil War was not a country welcoming a brave new world but one clinging fearfully to an old one. Change, where it happened, was not the result of a deliberate striving for 'progress', and the polity of pre-Civil War England was not on the point of collapse. Parliaments were...
E-bog
1021,49 DKK
Forlag
Hambledon Continuum
Udgivet
1 juli 1990
Længde
346 sider
Genrer
1DBKE
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780826425669
What holds these essays together is the rejection of the idea of 'the birth of the modern world'. England before the Civil War was not a country welcoming a brave new world but one clinging fearfully to an old one. Change, where it happened, was not the result of a deliberate striving for 'progress', and the polity of pre-Civil War England was not on the point of collapse. Parliaments were not dominated by two 'sides' in training for a Cup Final at Naseby, but were groups of people struggling with limited success to reach agreement.