Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: experience other than our own -- ALL HISTORY RESTS UPON ANALYTICAL ASSUMPTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE MADE EXPLICIT -- THE SHAPE OF THE ANALYSIS: THREE PROCESSES -- THE CONTEXT OF TIME: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- THE CONTEXT OF SPACE: NATIONALITY AND MODERNITY -- HISTORY AND MEMORY -- 1 The shape of the seventeenth century -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BROKEN MIRROR -- TIME: THE UNITY OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EXPERIENCE -- SPACE: THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- EVENTS AND IDEAS: THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- CONCLUSION -- PART I England's troubles 1618 ... 89: political instability -- 2 Taking contemporary belief seriously -- INTRODUCTION: BEHIND THE VEIL OF RESTORATION -- POLITICAL INSTABILITY -- PILOT ERROR OR MECHANICAL FAILURE? -- CONTEXTS AND CAUSES -- THE STRUGGLE FOR PARLIAMENTS -- THE STRUGGLE FOR ROYAL POWER -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The unreformed polity -- INTRODUCTION: RESTORING THE SENSE OF POSSIBILITY -- MEDIEVAL SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND -- RENAISSANCE ENGLAND: A MONARCHICAL REPUBLIC? -- EUROPEAN STATEBUILDING -- THE BLOODY CITY -- 4 Reformation politics (1): 1618 ... 41 -- INTRODUCTION: REFORMATION POLITICS -- THREE DOCUMENTS 1621 ... 41 -- HABSBURG ATTITUDES -- CAROLINE DISHONOUR -- THE FIRST CRISIS OF PARLIAMENTS 1625 ... 9 -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Counter-reformation England -- CAROLINE STATEBUILDING -- THE PEACE OF SILENCE -- CAROLINE RELIGIOUS POLICY -- COUNTER-REFORMATION ENGLAND -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Reformation politics (2): 1637 ... 60 -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFENCE OF THE REFORMATION (THE SCOTS REBELLION) -- FURTHER REFORMATION (ENGLISH POLARISATION 1640 ... 6) -- RADICAL REFORMATION 1646 ... 9 -- INTERREGNUM -- 7 Restoration memory -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME: RESTORATION MEMORY -- SPACE: THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT -- FEAR OF POPERY: 'THE PLOT REVIV'D' -- FEAR FOR MONARCHY: CHARLES II AND FRANCE -- FEAR FOR PARLIAMENTS: ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Restoration crisis 1678 ... 83 -- INTRODUCTION: THE UNRAVELLING -- POPERY AND ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT (JANUARY ... JULY 1679) -- POLARISATION (THE LONG PROROGATION 1679 ... 80) -- CONFRONTATION (OCTOBER 1680 ... APRIL 1681) -- THE SELF-DEFENCE OF PROTESTANTS 1681 ... 3 -- 9 Invasion 1688 ... 9 -- INTRODUCTION: THREE PROCESSES -- DOMESTIC CONTEXT -- INTERVENTION -- COLLABORATION -- THE 'OLD CAUSE' -- PART II The English revolution 1640 ... 89: radical imagination -- 10 The shape of the English revolution -- INTRODUCTION: THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- RADICALS, HAVING LAIN DOWN, GETTING UP REFRESHED -- CLOUD WITHOUT RAIN -- THE SHAPE OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL CONTEXTS -- THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- 11 Radical reformation (1): the power of love -- INTRODUCTION -- RADICAL REFORMATION -- 'LEVELLERS': PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY -- 'DIGGERS': WINSTANLEY AND COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY -- 'RANTERS': ABIEZER COPPE AND RADICAL CHARITY -- QUAKERISM: COMMUNITY -- REFORMATION OF MANNERS -- 12 Radical reformation (2): outward bondage --tidtid15
Summary
In this study, the author argues that 17th-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive, the second was creative, and the third was reconstructive
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-528) and index
