- The Oxford Handbook of The English Revolution
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Civil War and Revolution in England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Post-Reformation Politics, or on Not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War
- The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637–1644
- The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637–1642
- The Irish Rising
- War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642–1646
- Scottish Politics, 1644–1651
- The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643–1649
- The Regicide
- Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649–1658
- English Politics in the 1650s
- The Restoration in Britain and Ireland
- Oliver Cromwell
- Parliaments and Constitutions
- The Armies
- The Revolution in Print
- State and Society in the English Revolution
- Urban Citizens and England’s Civil Wars
- Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution
- ‘Gender Trouble’: Women’s Agency and Gender Relations in the English Revolution
- State, Politics, and Society in Scotland, 1637–1660
- State, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1641–1662
- The Persistence of Royalism
- Varieties of Parliamentarianism
- Political Thought
- Religious Thought
- ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’: The Literature of Civil War, Revolution, and Restoration
- The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution, and Restoration
- The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development
- The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology
- Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art
- The English Revolution in British and Irish Context
- Kingdom Divided: The British and Continental European Conflicts Compared
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter reviews recent work on the English civil war and English Revolution, and related topics, including the Scottish Covenanters’ revolution, the Irish rising of 1641, Confederate Ireland, and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It sets the recent emphasis on the fluidity and dynamism of the politics in the context of the debate prompted by revisionist critiques of Marxist and Whig historiographies. It argues that close attention to fluidity has not been at the expense of consideration of the larger structures of political life and long-term transformations in them. Attempts to relate the crisis and its effects on constitutional development to social structural change and economic transformation have largely failed but, it is argued, the crisis had long-term effects on state formation, religious change, and political thought and culture in all Three Kingdoms, and on their mutual relationships in the nascent British state.
Keywords: English Revolution, Covenanters, Irish rising, Confederate Ireland, revisionism, Whig history, Marxist history, state formation, political culture
Michael J. Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the state formation, popular politics and the English civil war. His most recent book is God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A new history of the English civil wars (2008).
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- The Oxford Handbook of The English Revolution
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Civil War and Revolution in England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Post-Reformation Politics, or on Not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War
- The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637–1644
- The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637–1642
- The Irish Rising
- War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642–1646
- Scottish Politics, 1644–1651
- The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643–1649
- The Regicide
- Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649–1658
- English Politics in the 1650s
- The Restoration in Britain and Ireland
- Oliver Cromwell
- Parliaments and Constitutions
- The Armies
- The Revolution in Print
- State and Society in the English Revolution
- Urban Citizens and England’s Civil Wars
- Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution
- ‘Gender Trouble’: Women’s Agency and Gender Relations in the English Revolution
- State, Politics, and Society in Scotland, 1637–1660
- State, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1641–1662
- The Persistence of Royalism
- Varieties of Parliamentarianism
- Political Thought
- Religious Thought
- ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’: The Literature of Civil War, Revolution, and Restoration
- The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution, and Restoration
- The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development
- The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology
- Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art
- The English Revolution in British and Irish Context
- Kingdom Divided: The British and Continental European Conflicts Compared
- Index
