Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781852850258)

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.

Author: Conrad Russell
ISBN-10: 1852850256
ISBN-13: 9781852850258
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2003
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d