The Revolution in Time: Chronology, Modernity, and 1688-1689 in England

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Tony Claydon (Professor of Early Modern History, Professor of Early Modern History, Bangor University)

The Revolution in Time

Chronology, Modernity, and 1688-1689 in England

Tony Claydon (Professor of Early Modern History, Professor of Early Modern History, Bangor University)

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Oxford University Press
30 January 2020

British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Time (chronology), time systems & standards

Series: The Past and Present Book Series

The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England. The study examines how those who lived through the extraordinary collapse of James II's regime perceived this event as it unfolded, and how they set it within their understanding of history. It questions whether a new understanding of chronology - one which allowed fundamental and human-directed change - had been widely adopted by this point in the past; and whether this might have allowed witnesses of the revolution to see it as the start of a new era, or as an opportunity to shape a novel, 'modern', future for England. It argues that, with important exceptions, the people of the era rejected dynamic views of time to retain a 'static' chronology that failed to fully conceptualise evolution in history. Bewildered by the rapid events of the revolution itself, people forced these into familiar scripts. Interpreting 1688-1689 later, they saw it as a reiteration of timeless principles of politics, or as a stage in an eternal and pre-determined struggle for true religion. Only slowly did they see come to see it as part of an evolving and modernising process - and then mainly in response to opponents of the revolution, who had theorised change in order to oppose it. The volume thus argues for a far more complex and ambiguous model of changes in chronological conception than many accounts have suggested; and questions whether 1688-1689 could be the leap toward modernity that recent interpretations have argued.

By: Tony Claydon (Professor of Early Modern History Professor of Early Modern History Bangor University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198817239
ISBN 10: 0198817231
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 January 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Time, revolution, and modernity 1: The experience of time during William's invasion 2: Time and the constitutional legitimacy of the revolution 3: The revolution in reformation time 4: Time and history in opposition rhetoric 5: Progressive Williamite time Conclusion: The revolution in time

Tony Claydon is professor of early modern history at Bangor University in Wales. He has published on various aspects of religious and political culture, of national identity, and of regime propaganda, in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, concentrating upon the reign of William III.

Reviews for The Revolution in Time: Chronology, Modernity, and 1688-1689 in England

effectively challenges over-simple distinctions * Margaret R. Hunt, Cultural and Social History *

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The Revolution in Time

Chronology, Modernity, and 1688-1689 in England

Tony Claydon (Professor of Early Modern History, Professor of Early Modern History, Bangor University)

$208

Hardback

Reviews for The Revolution in Time: Chronology, Modernity, and 1688-1689 in England

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