Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009
How England Became Modern: A Revolutionary View
By Bernard Bailyn
1688: The First Modern Revolution
by Steve Pincus
Yale University Press, 647 pp., $40.00
Some years ago two gifted young historians of Britain made a deal. Both were working on major studies of the English Revolution of 1688, commonly if inconsistently known as the Glorious Revolution. Both believed that what happened in 1688–1689 was a radical, major, transformative event too often written off as moderate, conservative, and peaceful—hardly a 'revolution' at all. Both believed that it had deep derivations and long-term consequences that could not be understood with reference simply to England alone; that the subject in its proper dimensions was far broader and more complex than had previously been seen.
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