The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642 (Ark Paperbacks) - Softcover

Stone, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744800455 ISBN 13: 9780744800456

Publisher: Routledge, 1986

Synopsis

Contains much the best all-round analysis of the causes of the English Revolution that we have. It synthesizes and makes sense of the research of a whole generation of scholars.

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Review

'Contains much the best all-round analysis of the causes of the English Revolution that we have. It synthesizes and makes sense of the research of a whole generation of scholars. It is packed not only with judicious and well-founded generalizations but also with stimulating ideas, expressed with verve and wit.' - Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Lawrence Stone was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1950, and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1963. Since 1963 be has been Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, also at Princeton, since 1969. Professor Stone has contributed numerous articles to learned journals and periodicals. His published works include The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642, Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, and (editor) Schooling and Society. He is also author of Sculpture in Britain: The Middle Ages, published in The Pelican History of Art series.

John Brewer is Director of the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0744800455
• ISBN 13: 9780744800456
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200