Synopses & Reviews
Interdisciplinary interpretations of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world.
Synopsis
The sixteen essays in this book offer novel and interdisciplinary interpretations of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world from both an international and a domestic English perspective. Using much hitherto neglected material, the authors address new issues from the perspectives of British, Dutch, and colonial American history, and British political and religious history and theory, literature, law, and womenâs history. Taken together, the essays broaden the context in which the Revolution is usually placed, and in doing so unite multiple disciplines.
Synopsis
The contributors to this volume address little-explored issues from the perspectives of British, Dutch, and colonial American history, and of British political and religious history and theory, literature, law, and women's history. They thereby place the Revolution in a broader context and in doing so unite multiple disciplines.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and art titles; Introduction; 1. The Dutch, the invasion of England, and the alliance of 1689 K. H. D. Haley; 2. France caught between two balances: the dilemma of 1688 John C. Rule; 3. The Fourth English Civil War: dissolution, desertion, and alternative histories in the Glorious Revolution J. G. A. Pocock; 4. The politics of legitimacy: women and the warming-pan scandal Rachel J. Weil; 5. Pretense and pragmatism: the response to uncertainty in the succession crisis of 1689 Howard Nenner; 6. William III as Hercules: the political implications of court culture Stephen B. Baxter; 7. The coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689 Lois G. Schwoerer; 8. William - and Mary? W. A. Speck; 9. John Locke and religious toleration Gordon J. Schochet; 10. Representing the Revolution: politics and high culture in 1689 Steven N. Zwicker; 11. Politics and popular culture: the theatrical response to the revolution Lois Potter; 12. Revolution redivivus: 1688-1689 and the radical tradition in seventeenth-century London politics Gary S. De Kray; 13. The cabinet and the management of death at Tyburn after the Revolution of 1688-1689 J. M. Beattie; 14. The Glorious Revolution and Ireland Karl S. Bottigheimer; 15. The poverty of political theory in the Scottish Revolution of 1688-1690 Bruce P. Lenman; 16. The Glorious Revolution and the British Empire 1688-1783 Jack P. Greene; Selected readings; Index.