Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Theme Stated and Explored
7. 1. The Results of the English Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century 23
8. 2. A Bourgeois Revolution? 109
9. 3. Crisis and Regrouping in the Political Elites: England from the 1630s to the 1660s 140
10. Part II. Aspects of the Revolutions
11. 4. Three British Revolutions and the Personality of Kingship 165
12. 5. Tradition and Innovation and the Great Rebellion 208
13. 6. The Bill of Rights: Epitome of the Revolution of 1688-89 224
14. 7. Two American Revolutions, 1689 and 1776 244
15. Part III. The Theme Revisited
16. 8. 1776: The Revolution Against Parliament 265
17. 9. Parliament, Empire, and Parliamentary Law, 1776 289
18. 10. English Radicalism in the Age of George III 323
19. 11. The Great Inversion, or Court Versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816) 368
20. Index 455