Houston

A Nation Transformed

England After the Restoration
Herausgeber: Houston, Alan; Pincus, Steven C. A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the ways in which England became a modern society 1640 1700.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780521173933
• ISBN-10: 0521173930
• Artikelnr.: 32466145

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: modernity and later seventeenth-century England Alan Houston
and Steve Pincus; 1. The question of secularisation Blair Worden; 2. 'Meer
religion' and the 'church-state' of Restoration England: the impact and
ideology of James II's Declarations of indulgence Mark Knights; 3.
Radicals, reformers and republicans: academic language and political
discourse in Restoration London Gary DeKrey; 4. The family in the Exclusion
Crisis: Locke vs Filmer revisited Rachel Weil; 5. Understanding popular
politics in Restoration Britain Tim Harris; 6. The war in heaven and the
Miltonic sublime Nicholas von Maltzahn; 7. The Cowleyan Pindaric ode and
sublime diversions Joshua Scodel; 8. Plays as property, 1660-1710 Paulina
Kewes; 9. Republicanism, the politics of necessity, and the rule of law
Alan Houston; 10. From holy cause to economic interest: the transformation
of reason of state thinking in seventeenth-century England Steve Pincus;
11. Natural philosophy and political periodisation: interregnum,
restoration, and revolution Barbara Shapiro.