Unrevolutionary England, 1603-1642

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
• | Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 346 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1852850256
• | ISBN-13: 9781852850258