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On the debate between E. P. Thompson and Perry Anderson on England’s past and the place of a seventeenth-century Revolution within it; likewise, on the genre of ‘unrevolutionary’, ‘revisionist’ studies popular in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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26. Anderson, ‘Components of the National Culture’, NLR, 50, July–August 1968, pp. 3–58, esp. 7–8; ‘Origins’, p. 27.
54. For similarities with Voltaire’s belief in the ‘ends’ of history, with most of the actual story getting in the way, see C. Frankel, The Faith of Reason (Cornell, 1952); for the concept of ‘mediation’ see Gibson, op. cit., p. 46.
68. J. Raven, ‘British History and the Enterprise Culture’, loc. cit.; ‘A Culture in Counterflow’, 2, NLR, 182, July–August 1990, pp. 121–30.
76. For a brief summary of these problems, J. A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (Berkeley, 1991), pp. 68–83.
79. D. Lockwood, Solidarity and Schism: The Problem of Disorder in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology (Oxford, 1992).
80. F. Braudel, ‘History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée’, On History (1980), pp. 23–54; E. Le Roy Ladurie, ‘The History that Stands Still’, in The Mind and Method of the Historian (Chicago, 1981).
81. Laslett, op. cit (see esp.7: ‘Social Change and Revolution in the Traditional World’); P. Zagorin, Rebels and Rulers, 1500–1660 (Cambridge, 1982).
87. P. Collinson, The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1991), pp. 8–9; C. Hill, ‘Parliament and People in Seventeenth Century England’, P&P, 92, 1981, p. 103.
89. Stone, ‘The Revolution over the Revolution’, NYRB, 11 June 1992, p. 48; Burgess, loc cit., p. 619.
91. P. Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625 (Oxford, 1982); Godly People (1983).
92. K. Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment; (ed.), Faction and Parliament: Essays in Early Stuart History (Oxford, 1978); The Personal Rule of Charles I (Yale, 1992).
93. C. Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War (Oxford, 1990); The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637–1642 (Oxford, 1991); Unrevolutionary England, Part IV.
95. B. Worden, The Rump Parliament (Cambridge, 1974).
102. See esp. David Carr, Time, Narrative and History (Bloomington, 1986), pp. 100ff.
106. J. H. Hexter, ‘The Early Stuarts and Parliament: Old Hat and the Nouvelle Vague’, Parliamentary History, I, 1982, pp. 181–215: quotation at p. 182.
120. R. Zaller, ‘The Continuity of British Radicalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’, Eighteenth Century Life, 6, 1981, pp. 4–7; cf Clark, op. cit., pp. 100–1; English Society, 1688–1832, pp. 65ff.
122. Russell, Causes, passim. For the similarities with Stone, see B. Worden, ‘Conrad Russell’s Civil War’, London Review of Books, 29, August 1991, p. 13.
124. Noel Annan, Our Age: The Generation that Made Post-War Britain (1990) 1991 edn, pp. 558ff.
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MacLachlan, A. (1996). Retreating from the Revolution. In: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24572-7_7
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