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98 pages 24 cm As the British struggled to preeserve the Protestant Succession as the reign of Charles II drew to a close, the nation was stricken by an internal revolution Pt. I: Contemporary combatants and commentators -- Confusion of events, May 1688-February 1689 / John Evelyn -- Revolutionary propaganda in the midst of battle / Gilbert Burnet -- The revolution as immoral, illegal and anti-monarchical / The Jacobites -- The revolution as a chance to erect a republic / The Republicans -- The revolution as an act of conquest / William Lloyd -- Revolution and the natural right of rebellion / John Locke -- Pt II: The triumph of Whig theory in modern interpretation -- The revolution in the age of liberal reform / Thomas Babington Macaulay --The revolution as a movement for democratic unification / George Macaulay Trevelyan -- The revolution as a reinforcement of English institutions / David Ogg -- Pt III: Recent anti-Whig revisions and restorations -- Were the Jacobites right? / George L. Cherry -- Reappraisal of John Locke's relation to revolution theory / Peter Laslett -- William of Orange, prime mover of the revolution / Lucile Pinkham -- The revolution justified by divine right

Author

Gerald M. Straka

Publisher

Boston, Heath

Published

1963

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Medical, Humanities