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Titre(s) : Scotland in the age of two revolutions [Texte imprimé] / edited by Sharon Adams and Julian Goodare
Publication : Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2014
Description matérielle : xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; volume 20
Lien à la collection : Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history,
with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings
of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. 0This book
focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made. Previous conceptualisations
of Scotland's "seventeenth century" have tended to define it as falling between 1603
and 1707 - the union of crowns and the union of parliaments. In contrast, this book
asks how seventeenth-century Scotland would look if we focused on things that the
Scots themselves wanted and chose to do. Here the key organising dates are not 1603
and 1707 but 1638 and 1689: the covenanting revolution and the Glorious Revolution.
Within that framework, the book develops several core themes. One is regional and
local: the book looks at the Highlands and the Anglo-Scottish Borders. The increasing
importance of money in politics and the growing commercialisation of Scottish society
is a further theme addressed. Chapters on this theme, like those on the nature of
the Scottish Revolution, also discuss central government and illustrate the growth
of the state. A third theme is political thought and the world of ideas. The intellectual
landscape of seventeenth-century Scotland has often been perceived as less important
and less innovative, and such perceptions are explored and in some cases challenged
in this volume.00
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Adams, Sharon (19..-.... ; historienne). Éditeur scientifique
Goodare, Julian (1957-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Covenantaires
Écosse (GB) -- 1660-1688
Écosse (GB) -- 1639-1654 (Guerres)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843839392. - ISBN 1843839393
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438839542
Notice n° :
FRBNF43883954
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