Volume 10, Number 9 · May 9, 1968
A Restless Lot
By Edmund S. Morgan
Vexed and Troubled Englishmen 1590-1642
by Carl Bridenbaugh
Oxford, 487 pp., $10.00
Historians have always recognized that something special was going on in England during the half-century or so preceding the outbreak of the Civil Wars there. One thinks at once of the writings of Tawney, Notestein, Haller, and Neale, and more recently of Hill, Hexter, Trevor-Roper, and Stone, to mention only a few. Historians are attracted to revolutions, and what has drawn some of the best historical minds of the present century to these years has been the prospect of uncovering the forces that led to revolution in the 1640s. Whether describing the committee system in the House of Commons or the education of the aristocracy, the rise of the gentry of its fall, the historians have usually had an eye cocked toward England's revolution.
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