Author: Lacey Baldwin SmithPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Past Speaks: To 1688
Author: Lacey Baldwin SmithPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Past Speaks: Since 1688
Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Past Speaks provides primary documents arranged thematically to address a number of historical problems. It includes selections on the impact of the French Revolution, Victorian sexuality, and trench warfare in World War I, and chapters on political and economic issues between the two world wars and the end of the British Empire.
1688: A Global History
Author: John E. Wills Jr.Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage from Damascus and Cairo to Mecca. Walk the pungent streets of Amsterdam and enter the Rasp House, where vagrants, beggars, and petty criminals labored to produce powdered brazilwood for the dyeworks. Through these stories and many others, Wills paints a detailed picture of how the global connections of power, money, and belief were beginning to lend the world its modern form. "A vivid picture of life in 1688...filled with terrifying violence, frightening diseases...comfortingly familiar human kindnesses...and the intellectual achievements of Leibniz, Locke, and Newton."—Publishers Weekly
The Past Speaks to 1688
Author: Jean Reeder SmithThe Bloodless Revolution
Author: Stuart E. PrallPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299102944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 represented a crucial turning point in modern British history by decisively shifting political power from the monarchy to Parliament. In this cogent study, first published in 1972, Stuart Prall offers a well-balanced account of the Revolution, its roots, and its consequences. The events of 1688, Prall argues, cannot be viewed in isolation. Examining the tempestuous half-century that preceded and precipitated William and Mary's accession, he provides a comprehensive overview of the Revolution's context and of its historical meaning. "[Prall] insists that the Revolution of 1688 was the culmination of a long crisis begun back in 1640, and the revolution settlement was the resolution of problems which the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration had left unsolved. This is an admirable combination of analysis, commentary upon views of historians, and chronological narrative, starting with the Restoration in 1660 and continuing through the Act of Settlement in 1701."--Choice
1688
Author: Steven C. A. PincusPublisher: Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
ISBN: 9780300171433
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution--bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. He demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich narrative, based on new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689. James II's modernization program emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state, which emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution--not the French Revolution--the first truly modern revolution.--From publisher description.
An Illustrated History of Eighteenth-century Britain, 1688-1793
Author: Jeremy BlackPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Georgian Britain experienced a cultural renaissance in the form of the Enlightenment, the establishment of an empire & the beginning of the first industrial revolution.
A New History of Britain Since 1688
Author: Susan Kingsley KentPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199846504
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on the most current scholarship concerning gender, race, ethnicity, and empire, this 15-chapter textbook comprehensively examines the development of and contestations against a British identity among the constituent parts of the United Kingdom since 1688. It takes seriously the role of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in this process, and brings Britain's imperial subjects and lands into the narrative, showing how integral empire was to the UK's historical development. It examines the role environmental factors in economic development and their impact on the health and welfare of British citizens and subjects; and it uses gender, in particular, to illuminate power dynamics across a variety of settings. All this in a manageable length"--Provided by publisher.
The Past Speaks: To 1688
Author: A History of England, Volume 2
Author: Clayton RobertsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315509598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
A History of England, Volume 2 (1688 to the Present), focuses on the key events and themes of English history since 1688. Topics include Britain's emergence as a great power in the 18th century, the American War for Independence, the Industrial Revolution, and the economic crisis of the 1970s.