The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy - The Revolutions of 1688-91 in Their British, Atlantic and European Contexts

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.

List of contents

In Search of the Mot Juste: Characterizations of the Revolution of 1688-1689 - Lionel K. J. Glassey
The Damning of King Monmouth: Pulpit Toryism in the Reign of James II - Mark A Goldie
Whig Thought and the Revolution of 1688-91 -
The Restoration, the Revolution and the Failure of Episcopacy in Scotland - Alasdair Raffe
Scotland under Charles II and James II and VII: In Search of the British Causes of the Glorious Revolution - Tim Harris
Ireland's Restoration Crisis - John Gibney
Ireland, 1688-91 - Toby C Barnard
Rumours and Rebellions in the English Atlantic World, 1688-89 - Owen Stanwood
The Revolution in Foreign Policy, 1688-1713 - Tony Claydon
Political Conflict and the Memory of the Revolution 1689-1745 - Gabriel Glickman
Afterword: State Formation, Political Stability and the Revolution of 1688 - Stephen Taylor

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Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor

Product details

• Authors: Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor
• Assisted by: Tim Harris (Editor), Tim (Customer) Harris (Editor), Stephen Taylor (Editor), Stephen C Taylor (Editor), Stephen C. Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2013
• EAN: 9781843838166
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-816-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur; Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918